{"id":9808,"date":"2016-06-20T09:43:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T14:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=9808"},"modified":"2016-06-20T09:43:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T14:43:37","slug":"ensuring-student-success-in-online-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/ensuring-student-success-in-online-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensuring Student Success in Online Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Janice Florent<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ghc.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/imce\/images\/learning_center\/success_sm.jpg\" title=\"student success\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ghc.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/imce\/images\/learning_center\/success_sm.jpg?resize=359%2C160\" alt=\"students putting together puzzle pieces leading toward success as a goal\" height=\"160\" width=\"359\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Many students enroll in online classes because of the convenience and flexibility. Some students mistakenly believe taking an online course is going to be easier than a face-to-face class. It is important that students understand online courses require greater responsibility\/ownership for their own learning. <\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facultyfocus.com\/\">Faculty Focus<\/a> article, Poonam Kumar, EdD and Marilyn Skrocki, listed a few simple strategies and techniques instructors can do at the course level to support students\u2019 success in online classes. Those strategies and techniques are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clearly communicate expectations<\/li>\n<li>Prepare students<\/li>\n<li>Course organization and layout<\/li>\n<li>Chunk the content and scaffold instruction<\/li>\n<li>Humanize the course<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Following these strategies and techniques can help students to succeed in online courses. If this has piqued your interest, you can read more in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facultyfocus.com\/articles\/online-education\/ensuring-student-success-online-courses\/\">Ensuring Student Success in Online Courses<\/a> article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Janice Florent Many students enroll in online classes because of the convenience and flexibility. Some students mistakenly believe taking an online course is going to be easier than a face-to-face class. It is important that students understand online courses require greater responsibility\/ownership for their own learning. In a recent Faculty Focus article, Poonam Kumar, <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/ensuring-student-success-in-online-courses\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Ensuring Student Success in Online Courses\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[120,232,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-9808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online","7":"tag-elearning","8":"tag-online-learning","9":"tag-online-teaching","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-2yc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8034,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/improve-student-retention-in-online-courses\/","url_meta":{"origin":9808,"position":0},"title":"Improve Student Retention in Online Courses","author":"Janice Florent","date":"August 28, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Studies show that students withdraw from online courses at a higher rate than in face-to-face courses. 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