Field trips and plant tours are outside classroom activities that promote active learning and demonstrate real world operations. As described by Seifan, Dada, and Berenjian
Principle #1: Build community to foster engagement online A sense of community fosters a sense of belongingness and is critical to student engagement. Building a
A bunch of black boxes on a video call. An empty discussion board. A student who hasn’t submitted any work all term. These might all
Change is hard! As educators, COVID-19 ruthlessly hurled us into a world of online learning with little or no experience. My embarrassing initial reaction: “I
Whether we are teaching online, face-to-face, or somewhere in between, student engagement should always remain at the forefront of our planning and practice, as keeping
With the onset of COVID-19, new approaches and technologies are being explored and implemented by instructors at all levels, but what is new is not
There is no doubt that the COVID‐19 pandemic has radically revolutionized teaching methods and student interactions in the classroom. Like millions of teachers around the
Field labs, common in natural resource and agricultural education programs, have learning objectives that can be hard to transfer to an online environment. Covid-19 has
As society has evolved, so too has education. To meet the changing needs of our world, an explosion of online education has focused on adult
One of the key elements to teaching online is effective communication between teacher and student. We would like to think that our communications are the
