By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology
While the traditional orientation process at the University of Colorado Boulder was meant to bond new students to the institution from their first moments on campus, its structure often had just the opposite effect. Two early-summer “welcome days” packed with face-to-face presentations and panels blasting participants with a firehose of information were bound to leave students feeling numb. By the time they returned to campus in August, they’d have forgotten much of what they’d learned. So the university came up with a different approach. The “New Student Welcome Online Experience,” introduced in 2015, doles out content just in time, using a blend of videos, text, quizzes, checklists and rewards to engage and entice students to learn more continually.
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/08/25/taking-student-orientation-online.aspx
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