Improve Student Engagement and Retention with Better Course Communications

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Students are always on, and educational institutions everywhere need to make themselves readily available to them. Institutions using the Blackboard Learning Management System (LMS) can help connect students with instructors online in the form of assignments, presentations and grades. But students today need an even faster communication cycle than an online web-based format can offer. How can today's instructors possibly keep up with their students' lives and properly equip them for the future?

Blackboard Connect for Learn definitely helps increase outcomes in online courses. Engagement levels in online courses need to be a little bit higher than in face- to-face classes because the students feel disconnected and apart from their peers and their instructor—and Connect for Learn helps keep them on track.

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Kerri Reese
Office of Distance Education
Jaksonville State University