{"id":93483,"date":"2024-11-04T13:05:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T18:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=93483"},"modified":"2024-11-04T13:41:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T18:41:47","slug":"boosting-student-engagement-with-interactive-and-practical-teaching-methods-dr-lucas-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/11\/04\/boosting-student-engagement-with-interactive-and-practical-teaching-methods-dr-lucas-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Boosting Student Engagement w\/ Interactive & Practical Teaching Methods [Dr. Lucas Long]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boosting Student Engagement with Interactive and Practical Teaching Methods<\/strong><\/a> — from campustechnology.com by Dr. Lucas Long<\/p>\n

One of my biggest goals as an educator is to show students how the material they learn in class can be applied to real-world situations. In my finance courses, this often means taking what we’re learning about financial calculations and connecting it to decisions they’ll have to make as adults. For example, I’ve used real-life scenarios like buying a car with a loan, paying off student debt, saving for a wedding, or calculating mortgage payments for a future home purchase. I even use salary data to show students what they could realistically afford given average salaries after graduation, helping them relate to the financial decisions they will face after college.<\/p>\n

These practical examples don’t just keep students engaged; they also demonstrate the immediate value of learning financial principles. I often hear students express frustration when they feel like they’re learning concepts that won’t apply to their lives. But when I use real scenarios and provide tools like financial calculators to show them exactly how they’ll use this knowledge in their future, their attitude changes. They become more motivated to engage with the material because they see its relevance beyond the classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boosting Student Engagement with Interactive and Practical Teaching Methods — from campustechnology.com by Dr. Lucas Long One of my biggest goals as an educator is to show students how the material they learn in class can be applied to real-world situations. In my finance courses, this often means taking what we’re learning about financial calculations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,115,302,141,71,3,419,119,158,276,102,7,838,406,173,486,310,66,50,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-interaction-design","category-interactivity","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-motivation","category-pedagogy","category-real-world-assignments","category-staying-relevant","category-student-related","category-teaching-learning","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93485,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93483\/revisions\/93485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}