Data from the Student Affairs Information and Research Office* offer expanded perspective on sentiments that Collegium students stressed in response to a brief Honors Programs survey. Overall, students express that they:

• • • feel increasingly isolated

    • desire more personal interactions with instructors and students

    • have decreasing levels of engagement with their courses

    • feel communication (and its quality) between instructors and peers have declined

    • struggle to give their full dedication to their academics

Additionally, UCLA’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT) and UCLA’s College Faculty Executive Committee (FEC) partnered to design and administer a questionnaire to obtain course-level feedback about the student experience during remote learning. As the remote learning period progresses, student perspectives from these questionnaires will continue to be updated on this site here. A public dashboard of all the results from Fall 2020 can also be accessed here (NEW)

The online experience can be draining for all involved and screen fatigue is a real phenomenon. So how can we better connect to and engage our students during this time?

On the following pages, you will find information to help you enhance the remote learning experience. Nothing can replace the human interactions of the traditional classroom experience; we can, however, do our best to make remote learning engaging and enjoyable.

(The following materials have been created based on feedback from Honors Collegium professors and students as well as campus offices. Please share other ideas and resources that you have found helpful with Collegium Coordinator, Yejoo Kim, at honorscollegium@college.ucla.edu.)

* Data analysis for this project is still in progress, and we have received permission from Dr. Kristen McKinney, Director for UCLA’s Student Affairs Information and Research Office (SAIR), to share preliminary findings with you.