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Esteban Etcheverry: Live Learning: a strategy to improve student engagement
After more than a decade of existence, MOOCs continue to offer great opportunities to add value connecting people and enabling the continuous learning with a world-wide reach. But, beyond all its innovations and advantages, still an extensive number of courses have a significant percentage of dropouts.
One of the strategies to face this dropout challenge is to incorporate live learning sessions which enable a live interaction between students and the instructor and enhance the learning experience. In this talk we'll share best practices, challenges and lessons learned based in our experience.
Round table discussion: How has the COVID-19 situation changed your online learning?
Juniper update
Live Learning: a strategy to improve student engagement
Two recent edX courses due to COVID-19:
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Sites mentioned in Esteban’s slides:
NEXTPERFORM (Sales Academy) - www.nextperform.com
COMUNIT (Project Management Academy) - www.comunit.com.ar
CEPF (Sports Academy) - cepf instagram
AIE ARG (Argentinian Structural Engineering Association) - www.aiearg.org.ar
Aulasneo - Open edX Service Providers www.aulasneo.com/en