Melissa Soileau

What has been your experience with using escape rooms in online courses with a debriefing discussion post? What other types of learning activities do you find the most engaging online?

having a variety of learning activities thoughtfully placed in the course matters in achieving outcomes.

Facilitating engagement is important and using feedback from students to address course areas of confusion and make adjustments is important.

Regardless of asynchronous or synchronous- faculty need to be timely and communicate well with students, have information centrally located and respond timely.

I have learned that the technology needs to fit to achieve learning objectives of the course and be evaluated with learner feedback when used.

I am in the nursing online environment at a prelicensure level as well as BSN and MSN.  Each of these levels has opportunities to discuss content as a group at least once every 2 weeks if an 8 wk course and weekly if a 5-week course. Assessments may build on a project like a capstone assignment or an evidence-based project where a topic relevant to nursing practice is chosen and then developed, mimicking activities a nurse will have once in practice. Each week videos, written materials, quizzes and a variety of reflections or papers engage all types of learners.

I have learned that depending on learning objectives and where in course the test is being given and/or if summative or formative determines what type of test is used.

I have learned that it is important to have different methods to assess students.

I have learned to keep the learning objectives in mind as I ask questions and listen to students' responses so that I can use this opportunity to break up the question to ensure objectives are met and to be careful to ask broader or narrower questions at the beginning and end of courses.