How to motivate students with online courses

The lecturer often complained that the students were not active with online learning. They did not read the material before live class……

For me, there are a lot of factors related to learning motivation, but I think two things that impact on students’ motivation in our current context are:

- The first, Students’ psychology: some students are not ready to learn with an online course because they think it is new to them. They also are not active and lack of self-study skills. So, these lead to students to cope with lecture demands. To help students learning actively, I often make a meeting to encourage students and show them how to learn with an online course at the beginning time via Meeting zoom.

- The second, Teacher’s attitude: sometimes, after posting lectures on an online course, lecturers usually do not pay much attention to learners. So, students can think the lectures are not important and neglect to their learning. With this situation, I often remind them to pay attention to their learning via the announcement tool, comment on their learning activities, and five feedback every week.

 
Hopefully, we all will have efficient online courses in pandemic COVID 19!