Top 5 Strategies to Increase Student Engagement Online - Allen Schwartz, Xconomy

ood teachers often say that “95 percent of good teaching is just getting students motivated.” Online learning presents a new opportunity to both measure engagement and create learning methods that increase it. Facebook sets the high bar for online engagement—65 percent of its billion-plus users are on the platform for an average of 40 minutes per day. The challenge for online platforms is to infuse themselves with some of the Facebook mojo to drive up engagement rates. Here are 5 strategies that showcase what best-in-class online learning platforms are using to do just that. https://www.xconomy.com/boston/2016/01/13/top-5-strategies-to-increase-student-engagement-online/