Student Engagement in an Online Course
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
