{"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":"2014-03-24T22:43:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T22:43:57","slug":"enhancing-social-engagment-in-your-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/2013\/04\/17\/enhancing-social-engagment-in-your-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhancing Social Engagement in Your Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/files\/2013\/04\/Rainbow-7Apr13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-131\" title=\"Double Rainbow\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/files\/2013\/04\/Rainbow-7Apr13-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Double Rainbow\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Rainbows do need rain.\u00a0 Is social media just a distraction from formal learning for college students, or can it be channeled to enhance learning?<\/p>\n<p>Are you wondering how to foster greater student engagement in your courses?\u00a0 Vexed that some of your students in the classroom appear more engaged in social media than in the class?\u00a0 Then consider using social engagement to facilitate teaching and learning. \u00a0 Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/edtechtimes.com\/2013\/04\/05\/15-ways-online-educators-can-improve-social-engagement\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>15 Ways Online Educators Can Improve Social Engagement<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 These ideas are applicable whether you teach traditional on-campus courses, hybrid courses or fully online courses.<\/p>\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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainbows do need rain.\u00a0 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?\u00a0 Vexed that some of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/2013\/04\/17\/enhancing-social-engagment-in-your-courses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"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_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3tIXF-21","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}