Continuing to Engage the Online Learner: More Activities and Resources for Creative Instruction

CHAPTER 2

Evolution of the Phases of Engagement

We want students to share our enthusiasm for our academic discipline and find our courses so compelling that they willingly, in fact enthusiastically, devote their hearts and minds to the learning process.

Barkley, 2010, p. 5

The Phases of Engagement model (Conrad & Donaldson, 2004, 2011) provides an instructional strategy for guiding students through levels of increased collaborative engagement by incorporating appropriate activities. The stages for creating an effective online learning environment span the continuum from the student as an individual to the student immersed in a collaborative learning community. The course begins with introductory one-to-one student-to-student and student-to-instructor ...