Online courses are popular with students and faculty. Their popularity belies a troubling reality: student outcomes in online courses are lower than those of in-person courses and minoritized students fare worse.
What contributes to lower outcomes and inequities? Research suggests a range of contributors that show up as academic mindsets and behaviors that can undermine learning and achievement, such as weak motivation and depressed participation.
The Postsecondary Teaching with Technology Collaborative is working to boost online course outcomes for minoritized students. It has developed technology-enabled instructional strategies designed to grow students’ self-directed learning (SDL), or how students manage their learning, in online STEM courses.
In this session, researchers and faculty presented and discussed the evidence and intervention, shared implementation successes and challenges, and explored case-making and implementation strategies.
