Engaging Online Classrooms — Strategies for Engagement
Why This Learning Experience?
This instructor-guided professional learning experience is designed to help educators learn on their schedule while still receiving meaningful support. Participants complete practical activities, connect ideas to real classroom practice, and build confidence through application-focused learning.
Learning Experience Overview
This course provides educators with practical strategies for fostering meaningful participation and engagement in online and hybrid learning environments. Participants explore the foundations of student engagement and learn how to design learning experiences that promote behavioral, emotional, and cognitive involvement.
Through ten modules, educators examine engagement through multiple lenses, including instructional design, active learning, accessibility, teacher presence, collaboration, assessment, and continuous improvement. By the end of the course, participants will have a toolkit of research-based strategies that can be applied immediately to improve student participation, motivation, and learning outcomes.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Design engaging online and hybrid learning experiences that promote active participation.
- Apply strategies that strengthen behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement.
- Incorporate digital tools and instructional practices that support interaction and collaboration.
- Create inclusive and accessible learning environments for diverse learners.
- Build teacher presence and community within online classrooms.
- Evaluate engagement strategies and use data to improve instructional effectiveness.
Who Should Participate?
- Teachers struggling with online engagement
- Educators seeking consistent student participation
- Instructional coaches supporting online learning
