Increasing Engagement during Online Learning through the Use of Interactive Slides

ABSTRACT It is difficult in asynchronous online instruction to keep students engaged and motivated. The rapid and unexpected nature of the move to online instruction has meant that the content presented to students has been primarily static and linear. Thus, there is a need for creative pedagogical...

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Autores principales: Nazzy Pakpour, Isabel Souto, Pamela Schaffer
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:fcf3ed2acf724e099040521dac17c4ee2021-11-15T15:04:51ZIncreasing Engagement during Online Learning through the Use of Interactive Slides10.1128/jmbe.00117-211935-78851935-7877https://doaj.org/article/fcf3ed2acf724e099040521dac17c4ee2021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jmbe.00117-21https://doaj.org/toc/1935-7877https://doaj.org/toc/1935-7885ABSTRACT It is difficult in asynchronous online instruction to keep students engaged and motivated. The rapid and unexpected nature of the move to online instruction has meant that the content presented to students has been primarily static and linear. Thus, there is a need for creative pedagogical approaches that re-create some level of the laboratory experience. One economical and accessible approach to building an interactive lab experience is making web-based interactive slides. In the virtual spaces created by this approach, students can explore different modalities of content in a nonlinear and asynchronous manner. We hope that this approach will make the learning process easier and more enjoyable for students while simultaneously making the complex content normally covered in microbiology labs more approachable. In this article we provide detailed instructions for producing web-based interactive slides as well as an example interactive slide that encompasses content that might normally be presented in an introductory microbiology class.Nazzy PakpourIsabel SoutoPamela SchafferAmerican Society for Microbiologyarticleinteractive slidesonline learningdistance learningstudent engagementSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691Biology (General)QH301-705.5ENJournal of Microbiology & Biology Education, Vol 22, Iss 2 (2021)
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online learning
distance learning
student engagement
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student engagement
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Isabel Souto
Pamela Schaffer
Increasing Engagement during Online Learning through the Use of Interactive Slides
description ABSTRACT It is difficult in asynchronous online instruction to keep students engaged and motivated. The rapid and unexpected nature of the move to online instruction has meant that the content presented to students has been primarily static and linear. Thus, there is a need for creative pedagogical approaches that re-create some level of the laboratory experience. One economical and accessible approach to building an interactive lab experience is making web-based interactive slides. In the virtual spaces created by this approach, students can explore different modalities of content in a nonlinear and asynchronous manner. We hope that this approach will make the learning process easier and more enjoyable for students while simultaneously making the complex content normally covered in microbiology labs more approachable. In this article we provide detailed instructions for producing web-based interactive slides as well as an example interactive slide that encompasses content that might normally be presented in an introductory microbiology class.
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