How to motivate online learners

Following Tips can help in motivating the learners

1. Create useful and relevant learning experiences based on the age group and interests of your learners
   practical knowledge should be emphasized. A course must be designed that have a relevant material. Learning materials should be the one that can be practiced. Practical knowledge is more valued by adult learners, than excessive details and theories.
2. Encourage Exploration
   adult learners like children want to construct knowledge with exploration and curiosity and in a meaningful way. That’s why, you must have all sorts of references, short videos, lectures, infographics, materials, podcasts and free resources available.  In such type of learning environment, learner gets more inspired and wants to learn more.
3. Use social media and discussion forums
   the social media websites are an influential means for cooperation, commentary and sharing. With its help group discussions and communities can be facilitated. In fun and excitement knowledge can be facilitated as social media is fun!
4. Add a personal touch to the course
   you should add a personal touch in the course. A face is required by the course. You must have to be, available for the people, invite people who are expert in subject-matter, professors, authors, and other specialists in live online to discuss different thing and for question and answer sessions. 
5. Make the course material challenging
   Make use of case studies and different problem solving exercises. So that learners can have a challenge and they look for the possible solutions.
6. Add humour
   the most unmotivated learners can be motivated by the humor in any course. Students respond better when they see that teacher is funny. They listen carefully because they don’t want to miss the witty sense of humor. A teacher can never lose with that. 
7. Give information in small chunks
   people remember and absorb more information if they are in Small bits or in chunks. They are helpful in processing information. 
8. Add suspense
   Suspense is necessary to keep the learner involve in learning. Don't tell everything about your course in the beginning. Overview is necessary, but some interesting points must be kept save for the right time.

1. Accommodate individual interests and career goals
   Authorize the learners to work on some goals and the training must be individualize and according to the learners need.
    
2. Stimulate your learners
   With the help of thought-provoking questions or brain teasers, promote the learners to think.
3. Let learning occur through mistakes 
   According to a German proverb "you will become clever through your mistakes". And there is a famous quotation that: "Practice makes perfect". Henry Roediger in an experiment divided his students in two groups. Group A focused on studying natural sciences paper for 4 sessions, group B studied the same paper for one session and experimented on it three times. Experimenter stated that, after one week, group B students performed 50% better than Group A, although they studied less then group A. So it proves that "practice makes perfect". 
4. Make it visually-attractive
   it is generally known that 83% of learning takes place visually.
5. Involve Emotions
   emotion involve and motivate the learner. It is the tack of the teacher to Get the learner emotionally involved in learning – come up with controversial statements, memories must be knocked, and state some real-life stories. 
6. Get examples of their workplace
   all the course does not have association with experiments. Sometime a clue is required by the learner that can work as a reminder and make a connection.
7. Be respectful to the students
8. Always ask for the feedback
   Good feedbacks can be motivating
9. Outline the course benefits

By outlining the benefits learner can be motivated. 

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