Kanekar Publishes New Book Chapter to Engage Online Students
Dr. Amar Kanekar
Dr. Amar Kanekar, professor and graduate coordinator of the Health Education/Health Promotion program at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, has published a new book chapter aimed at helping college educators keep online students actively engaged in learning.
The book chapter, 鈥�,鈥� was published in August in the book, 鈥淚CT and Innovation in Teaching Learning Methods in Higher Education鈥� by Emerald Insight.
Kanekar has been teaching online and researching his experience with online education for more than a decade. With the constant rise in online learning, Kanekar wanted to share his knowledge of using group-based learning projects to engage online students.
鈥淭he entire chapter contains tips and tricks for higher education instructors about the use of group-based teaching and how it helps online learners,鈥� Kanekar said. 鈥淚t will be very useful for anyone who wants to design online group projects that engage students with active learning.鈥�
Kanekar鈥檚 book chapter includes a comprehensive prototype application of a group-based learning project for an online class as well as some examples of rubrics designed by instructors to assess a group-based learning project.
Additionally, the chapter discusses the roles of instructors and students in group-based learning, the challenges of group-based learning in an online class, and how instructors can utilize social media to design group-based learning projects.
