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General Session - Conference Presentation Only (no formal paper)

**Strategies for Engaging Learners in Online Courses** Dr. Judy Ann Serwatka, Purdue Univ. North Central, Westville, IN, USA, jserwatka@pnc.edu

All faculty who teach online struggle with the problem of students who are not engaged in the course and who either drop out or simply disappear during the semester. Many faculty have never been trained to use modern technologies to the fullest extent and in how to use those technologies to engage the learners. While not everyone needs to be a technology expert, there are ways to use technology to more fully engage our students. This paper presents the author's attempts to alleviate the problem of engaging the students in an Introduction to MIS course offered at the Junior level.

All Audiences strategies retention online education