Motivate and Activate your Students in Hybrid Learning

Motivation is an eLearning deal breaker. If online learners don’t have it, none of the other pieces will fall into place..”

—Nipum Sharma

How to Motivate Hybrid Learning

Learner Autonomy:

• Choose their own sources (e.g. articles, blogs, videos) They’re likely to choose according to their personal interests, which means they enjoy the task more, and therefore they’re more likely to stick with it. 
• a choice on what format to deliver the results of their work in, e.g. a short video, a meme, an audio-recording.

Competence:

 A sense of pride at having put in effort leading to success and achievement is crucial for long-term motivation. These so-called mastery experiences increase motivation through building self-efficacy – a belief in one’s competence to complete a task well. 

Relatedness:

It is the easiest for you and the students to focus on communication tools that students use anyway.

Ways to keep your students engaged:

Games

Projects

Interactive Presentations

Games:

• Online Boggle
• Synchronized Gimkit
• “Where is Waldo?” type vocabulary activities
• Interactive singing/ movement 
• What have I changed? 
• Bingo classroom 
• ABC items (on chat or in breakout rooms)
• Crossword puzzles (vocab review) https://www.bookwidgets.com/play/5BBRX5D?teacher_id=6652523728338944

Projects:

• Google Earth – 

Give the student a list of tourists attractions in a specific country/city. Teach students how to look for places on Google Earth. The students choose a place, look for information and give a presentation about that specific place

• Speaking Projects with Flipgrid

Interactive Presentations

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