Back to resources Article Contents Student Engagement in an Online Course June 19, 2019 Author: Read time: 1 min Share This Article Copy Link Share on Linkedin Share on X Share via Email Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Joshua Adams Increases Student Engagement with Packback Dr. Joshua Adams shares how Packback helped to increase student engagement in an online forestry course that students had previously shown little excitement in taking. “All it took [to get students engaged] was to seed some questions related to the class and allow the students to start developing their own questions.” INSTITUTION Louisiana Tech University DEPARTMENT Agricultural Sciences and Forestry COURSE Trees of North America SIZE 38 Students “The other neat thing that I saw [on Packback] is [students] competing with each other to see who could get the better [Curiosity] Score, who can ask the best question. And that’s really what I like to see, is that engagement, and looking beyond just taking a quiz, but trying to find those deeper questions for this material.“ Community Stats QUESTIONS 243 AVG CURIOSITY SCORE 46 RESPONSES 429 AVG WORDS PER POST 70 More Faculty Spotlights
