Teaching Tip: Motivating students to connect with course content

January 24, 2017

Marissa Carl

Getting the busy student to prepare for class prior to trying to do course work is difficult at best. This tip delves into this problem and provides a few recommendations for faculty. Should you feel your students need this type of encouragement, look to a model that places content in a way most students approach learning and participating in a course. This is not simply just-in-time teaching. There are a variety of methods one may use to up the ante and get students to prepare.

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— Teaching Tip by Dan LaSota, M.Ed., who is a UAF eLearning instructional designer and School of Education adjunct professor.