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| Evidence-Based Approaches in Higher Education to Increase Student Engagement in the Online Classroom |
| Saturday, May 24, 2025 |
| 5:30 PM–5:50 PM |
| Convention Center, Street Level, 147 A |
| Area: EDC |
| Instruction Level: Basic |
| CE Instructor: Susan Wilson, Ph.D.BCBA-D, LBA |
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| Evidence-Based Approaches in Higher Education to Increase Student Engagement in the Online Classroom |
| Domain: Service Delivery |
| NELLY DIXON (Purdue University Global), Aabett Johnson (Purdue University Global), Lisa Ann Phillips (Purdue University Global), Susan Wilson (Purdue University Global) |
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| Abstract: Online education has transformed how students participate in the learning environment, providing new opportunities for innovative ways to support student engagement. Student engagement in the virtual classroom is essential for achieving academic success, attaining learning outcomes, and fulfilling professional expectations in the workforce. One way to enhance engagement and establish a sense of community through a values-based lens may be to incorporate targeted language grounded in relational frame theory and acceptance and commitment therapy/training within instructor-student classroom communications (Gillard et al., 2022). Incorporating acceptance and commitment therapy/training principles into evidence-based methods, such as ‘nudging’ (Weijers et al., 2021) from a values-driven lens will be evaluated, and practical applications for the online post-secondary classroom will be presented (Fredericks et al., 2019). Using Intelligent agents within a virtual college classroom to disseminate values-based nudges throughout a term will be explored. Methods for measuring and demonstrating the effects on student engagement in the online classroom following the implementation of acceptance and commitment therapy/training-based techniques designed to identify and exercise education-based values will be proposed. |
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| Target Audience: Basic |
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