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Removing the Electronic or the e-Wall from Online Education

  As many educators, particularly in developing countries, continue to navigate how to administer their lessons online, a lot of the strategies that were utilised in the physical classroom are either downplayed or eliminated. Additionally, students are seemingly more tech savvy than their facilitators and as a result, become disengaged after the first 10-15 minutes of the lessons with the absence of strategies that would peak their interests. This article aims to suggest a list of strategies, as well as, a few suggestions that can be used to ‘jazz up’ the lessons that educators administer virtually so that students who participate in online lessons are enticed to participate. Here goes: 1.        Online  Debates: Allow students to participate in online debates. This way they will have to collaborate with other students on their own time. Also, working together beyond the formal virtual walls helps to develop and maintain human relations and interactions...