Online Learning Update

February 13, 2017

Online learning improves when you feel like you belong

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

by Jon Fingas, Engadget

Completing online courses can be daunting, but that’s particularly true if you’re in a developing part of the world. It’s too easy to feel like you don’t belong. Researchers may have a solution, though: giving you activities that help you fit in. An MIT and Stanford study has shown that brief psychological “interventions” can dramatically increase the completion rates for online courses in less developed regions. One of these boosts involved reading testimonials from earlier students who overcame that lack of belonging, while another involved writing a short explanation of how the course reflects and serves their values.

https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/24/online-learning-improves-with-psychological-interventions/

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