Enhancing Student's Engagement in Learning: Shades of Interactive Online Offline Session

Abstract

Abstract : The daunting horizon of Covid-19 has certainly upraised a new normal of e-learning environments. Nevertheless, participative engagement in online teaching has floated a challenge which is an implicit need for joyful learning. There is a need of keeping our online as well as offline sessions live and enhance the student's involvement with joy. In this paper, two novel and interactive techniques are proposed namely Idea Spinner and Crossword. These techniques have assured its emphasis in online/offline educational teaching along with improvement in student's engagement. Idea Spinner is an underlying concept of a spinning wheel with 'n' concept quadrants interfaced via wheeldecide.com. Eclipse crossword is a free tool to articulate our custom crosswords and inline them with our interactive sessions by sharing screen controls. The above-stated techniques were instigated for Third year B. Tech. – CSE (System Software) and Final Year B. Tech. ETC (System Verilog, Elective). The idea spinner technique has essentially assisted to uplift the global outreach with a rise of 55 percentage active responses over regular questioning. Crossword has especially helped weak learning students to enjoy a lesson-themed puzzle forenriching the feeling of joy. The pre and post-activity feedback was collected and analyzed over two parameters namely Impression of the lecture and Boredom period. The post-analysis has shown a noteworthy rise in parameters like the Impression of lecture which implicitly states a 52 percentage increase in interactive lecturing and secondly, the Boredom period which has reduced by 67 percentage. Keywords: Boredom period; Crossword; Idea Spinner; Impression of lecture; Lesson-themed puzzle; Online sessions.