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Theme: Activate your students

Students are often less motivated over Zoom than in the classroom, but how can you increase motivation and learning for your remote students as a teacher? Here you will find webinars about creating engagement over Zoom and activating your students. For example, with time for social interactions and well-implemented cognitive psychology.

The following webinars can be found on this page:

  • Create engagement in your lectures on Zoom
  • How can my students become active co-creators instead of passive audiences?
  • How can you implement cognitive psychology to promote student learning?
  • Digital meetings and active student engagement.

Create engagement in your lectures on Zoom

Date of recording: 2021-12-08.

Language: Swedish.

Gottfried gives tips for creating engagement in distance lectures. Woven into it, he shares his own experiences from his background in everything from literature scholar to experiences from Bergh's distance learning program at the School of Economics and KTH. We are invited into the world of a copywriter and the importance of a clear framework to create a space that students feel comfortable within. A space where they know what to expect.

Create engagement in your lectures on Zoom! (Swedish, play.kth.se) .

How can my students become active co-creators instead of passive audiences?

Date of recording: 2021-10-20.

Language: Swedish.

The presentation uses different ways to activate students, both in Zoom and Canvas. For example, the presentation begins with a simple question, an "icebreaker", which is used to lay the foundation for participation during the meeting. Similar arrangements also work to determine the discussion climate early in the course.

The webinar also addresses that small talk is essential online and suggests how to promote it. It also discusses how you as a teacher could reduce effort by collaborating and planning with others. To get an overview of tasks and a time estimate, you can use a "Web Meeting Plan", a supporting document for planning. The plan also makes it easier to distribute work and collaborate with colleagues.

How can my students become active co-creators instead of passive audiences? (Swedish, play.kth.se) .

How can you implement cognitive psychology to promote student learning?

Date of recording: 2022-05-11.

Language: English.

During the webinar, Marcus talks about research from cognitive psychology and how we can use the results to promote student learning. We'll learn more about the aspects of retrieval practice, what it is, and ways to motivate effortful processing for students.

The webinar also discusses "spaced practice" and suggests how to use it. This includes some settings in Canvas that you can use to enable recall with your students at the right time.

How can you implement cognitive psychology to promote student learning? (play.kth.se) .

Digital meetings and active student engagement

Date of recording: 2021-04-28.

Language: English.

How do you succeed with Zoom meetings and active learning? Learn the principles and guidelines on creating and maintaining digital meetings that are characterized by active learning in full and part remote courses.

The presentation is based on a theoretical framework for learning experiences and gives both tips and concrete examples.

Digital meetings and active student engagement (play.kth.se) .

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