Students Keep Asking for Social Media Postings

[Shea Bennett]

Over the last 8 months, I have found that direct instruction is the only thing that has proven effective, but I'm having such a challenge getting students to just FINISH their course. Their always so excited in the beginning. They pay for a monthly on-demand instruction, but I login and check their progress and after the 1st month. I don't see them logging in. We're not big enough to do 1:1 instruction continuously. It also doesn't bring enough revenue.

I'm trying to boost engagement and have only found genuine interactions on YouTube and LinkedIn. I have tried Discord after so many people requested discord, but students don't even interact there. So many people use TikTok, Instagram and Facebook, but after 2 weeks on those platforms. I deleted the account and deleted the apps from my phone. It was insane the amount of dings and pings happened all day and night and trying to keep up with social media attention spans is not something I want to spend my time doing.

I want people to FINISH there courses and then move on to greater things, but retention and focus has been a real headache and what get's me is people sign up and pay month to month faithfully, but they never login and LEARN. It's driving me nuts.

 

[DougBrooks]

I completely get it, maybe it is the way they are using the platform that is the issue, this was something I often found when dipping into other classes, to motivate them on the old platform (learn.Comptia.org) you could get them to RAG rate their understanding of a topic then get them to visit the confidence levels tab at the top or to reflect on their Strengths and weaknesses, once again this is found on the old platform you could get them to run the games too (though very few did in my cohorts).

On the new platform (Platform.CompTIA.org), this is a little more tricky, not only is it more difficult to see where your cohort sits in their understanding as you don't get to see it as easily as you have to go digging for it, but they can not RAG rate themselves which I find a bonkers omission as it is something we used all the time in our cohorts, trainers and curriculum leads could view their progress and advise them.

I take it you find they rather that cover the lesson content, the learners are just taking the inline tests, then wondering why they don't do well?

I, too, find it more of a challenge, but only on the new platform, not so much on the old due to the above reasons

 

[Rick Butler]

Even in Higher Ed, we have problems with students deciding to just drop out of school and discontinue their training. I'm afraid this has been a problem for quite a while - seems students are more non-committal these days.

All you can do, I think, is focus on the students that want to be there and learn. The ones that don't...well...