Fascination Awards & Degree Program Rankings

By Joy Cromwelle
Updated on February 14, 2024
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What are the Fascination Award Rankings?

The Fascination Awards highlight the most compelling and intriguing content posted on the web that motivate, inform, and excite their visitors. We use the Fascination Awards to recognize these thought-leaders and honor their contribution to online learning and the education arena.

As a teacher, educator, or advisor, there’s one undeniable reality you face on a daily basis – engaging your students is both exceedingly difficult and absolutely necessary for the development of these young minds. Whether you’re teaching in college or preparing high school seniors for the big leap to college, finding ways to interact with each member of your class remains a universal issue.

So how do you overcome this hurdle and make the most out of the valuable time spent with your students? To answer this question, let’s spend a few minutes looking over online learning, as well as the finer points that go into maximizing the engagement generated by this approach. From here, I have no doubts that you’ll have all the tools you need to keep these students on track for success.

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At the top of the list, it is essential that your content is relevant and closely linked with your in-class discussions. Without relevancy, it’s all too easy to find yourself trapped in a situation where you have the right tool in place, but lack the proper methods of relating these offerings to the students.

There are quite a few questions you can ask yourself as you sift through online learning practices and content options. Are the topics held within appropriate for the learning setting and from a social perspective? What about the potential for communication between yourself and the students? Is there a way to incorporate these selections into other lesson plans and learning strategies? If you’re able to start thinking with these questions in mind, then you’re on the right path in terms of relevancy and impact.

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If you’re looking for a strong example of online education relevancy, consider utilizing an eLearning tool that presents the content with an associated mentor character in mind. Having the “face” of the lesson – Magellan for history, Da Vinci for science, etc. – take an active part in the teaching experience does require doing a little extra work in terms of finding the right program or software. However, adding in this criteria for your desired eLearning tool can ensure that students always associate a relevant and interesting face or voice to the process.

Additionally, don’t be afraid to seek out feedback from other educational professionals and even your students as you explore the boundaries of your online class. Once you’ve fostered the discussion, you’ll start seeing potential opportunities for incorporating relevant content from a whole new perspective.

Place an Emphasis on Variety

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Of course, we know that simply finding content and methods that relate to your class aren’t enough to keep engagement levels high as you incorporate online learning into your daily coursework. For this reason, you’ll need to find new and creative ways to present these lessons to the student sitting in front of the computer screen.

The following list of lesson ideas should help get you off on the right foot in terms of placing an emphasis on variety in your online class strategy:

  • Instructional Video Content
  • Learning Scenarios and “Real World” Examples
  • Recurring Storylines and Coursework
  • Media Creation (Graphical, Text, etc.)
  • Open-Ended, Explorative Lessons
  • Expert or Mentor Sharing Sessions

Generally, working in a strong rotation of a handful of these types of lessons can help inhibit learning stagnation and ensure variety stands as the norm. For instance, if you spend a day or two using instructional video content, don’t be afraid to let your students apply this acquired knowledge on the following days via explorative lessons or immersive scenarios and real world examples.

While this is definitely just the tip of the iceberg in terms of keeping your students from becoming bored with the method of content delivery, at the very least, you can use these suggestions as the foundation for your foray into online learning. From that point, you’ll more than likely be comfortable enough to continue building upon these basic offerings with new, creative, and interactive renditions.

Taking the next steps

While the first two tips definitely pack a punch, neither compares to this final suggestion – get your students directly involved via problem-solving tactics. It’s one thing for some of your students to feel engaged when they sit down to a passive history or math lesson via an online learning portal or program, but nothing compares to the truly engaging nature of having these children or young adults work through active problems on their own.

Outside of keeping their attention focused on the problem at hand, incorporating a “step-by-step” take on problem-solving allows for you to spend time with each student at points of contention or confusion during these online class sessions. Basically, just because the learning experience has shifted to a digital platform, that doesn’t mean that you have to take a backseat in terms of hands-on interaction with these students.

A strong example of this process comes in the form of applying a learned skill to a unique scenario. If you’re teaching physics, why not have your students spend a day designing a bridge or some other construct based on the lessons learned via your chosen online degree program? As long as you can find a way to translate these problem-solving skills into applicable situations, then it’s safe to say that you’ve successfully leveraged the power of online education practices.

At its core, education offered online is all about reaching out to the young people in your classroom via a platform that provides both interaction and familiarity. By keeping relevancy, variety, and interaction at the forefront of the discussion surrounding this method, you can unlock even more potential via the online class process.

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Fascination Award Terms and Conditions

Our editorial staff will select a suitable number of nominations for a particular award. The nominees selected will be posted on the website and voted on by our readers.

Voting Rules

Violating one of the rules below is grounds for disqualification from the voting process.

  • Each website owner participating in the voting process may vote for their site only once.
  • Any voting done through the use of automated software, bots, proxies, or other forms of voting manipulation is strictly forbidden.
  • If a website owner participating in the contest is found to have plagiarized content on their blog and was nominated based on the plagiarized content, the blog will be disqualified from the voting process.
  • If any website owner participating in the contest publishes or has previously published content deemed lewd, hateful, or otherwise offensive by the sole discretion of Accelerated Degree, the website is in violation of the official voting rules and may be disqualified.

Note: We present awards in various categories and each award category contains its own set of prizes but all award categories are governed by the same rules.

Eligibility

The Fascination Awards is open to all legal residents of the United States and District of Columbia, and U.S. Military personnel (and their families) with APO/FPO addresses, who are eighteen (18) years of age or older, organizations and individuals involved in teaching across all categories. Participation in this contest constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional acceptance of these Official Rules.

Individuals residing outside of the United States and Canada are eligible for nomination for Fascination Awards, but are ineligible for prizes at this time.

Judging

Public voting will determine and choose the winner based on the number of votes.

Limitations

A completed online entry form must accompany each entry. Only one user can vote for each award.

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