{"id":125,"date":"2013-04-17T00:21:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T00:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/?p=125"},"modified":"2023-12-11T19:16:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T03:16:34","slug":"enhancing-social-engagment-in-your-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/2013\/04\/17\/enhancing-social-engagment-in-your-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhancing Social Engagement in Your Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/files\/2013\/04\/Rainbow-7Apr13.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/files\/2013\/04\/Rainbow-7Apr13-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"Double Rainbow\" class=\"wp-image-131\" title=\"Double Rainbow\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1441\/files\/2013\/04\/Rainbow-7Apr13.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1441\/files\/2013\/04\/Rainbow-7Apr13.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1441\/files\/2013\/04\/Rainbow-7Apr13.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rainbows do need rain.&nbsp; Is social media just a distraction from formal learning for college students, or can it be channeled to enhance learning?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you wondering how to foster greater student engagement in your courses?&nbsp; Vexed that some of your students in the classroom appear more engaged in social media than in the class?&nbsp; Then consider using social engagement to facilitate teaching and learning. &nbsp; Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/edtechtimes.com\/2013\/04\/05\/15-ways-online-educators-can-improve-social-engagement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>15 Ways Online Educators Can Improve Social Engagement<\/em><\/a>.&nbsp; These ideas are applicable whether you teach traditional on-campus courses, hybrid courses or fully online courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if you&#8217;ve tried some of these strategies, comment here to let us know how they&#8217;ve worked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainbows do need rain.&nbsp; Is social media just a distraction from formal learning for college students, or can it be channeled to enhance learning? Are you wondering how to foster greater student engagement in your courses?&nbsp; Vexed that some of your students in the classroom appear more engaged in social media than in the class?&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,153755],"tags":[50432,833,153774,495],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-hybrid-courses","tag-hybrid","tag-online","tag-social-engagement","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4063,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/4063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}