Student Engagement the Way It Was Meant to Be

There are lots of tricks, applications, institutions, and flashy tools that claim to help increase student engagement in your courses. Whether the delivery is online, face to face, or some blended form of the two, student engagement is perhaps one of the most sought after and yet elusive elements of creating an effective learning environment for learners regardless of modality.

Many internal and external elements contribute to this challenge. One might be a student’s lack of interest in the subject matter being taught, another could be a disconnect between the learner and the instructor, and still another might be a lack of confidence in one’s self or in their ability to successfully navigate the sometimes foreign world of education.

Regardless of the reason, years of research have provided strong evidence to suggest that when a learner develops a solid social support related to their learning goals, a community of inquiry, it can lead to improvements in the learner’s engagement in the course and in turn it improves the likelihood that the learner will take the necessary steps to overcome their challenges.

”Pronto functions in the space learners and Instructors already occupy, their mobile devices first, and their LMS platform if necessary.”

Pronto is a product that can do just that. Built with the learner in mind, it reduces barriers in communication by functioning in the space learners and instructors already occupy, their mobile devices first, and their LMS platform if necessary. It creates a seamless continuity between the discussions happening in the instructor’s classroom with the ones happening in the learner’s dorm rooms. Leveraging an effortless integration, learners and instructors can use on-the-fly chat, video, and task management with those in their classes and groups in a clean interface and with practically no set up required.

In this session Micah Murdock, the founder of UpThink Consulting digs in with Porter Rappleye from Pronto about the details of how the tools work, how they are impacting learning and what lies in store for the future of Pronto. To learn more about Pronto you can visit their website at www.trypronto.com