What’s your best learning experience? What students’ stories tell us about engaging teaching and learning

Stories help students make sense or meaning out of experience, access prior knowledge, and make connections. Therefore, we start our online courses by having students share their “best learning experience” stories. Through sharing and analyzing each others' stories, our students have discovered that an engaging learning experience is learner-centered, contextual, active, social, and supportive. In this session, we will report on the results of this assignment, presented as a series of case stories.