EDSE 524 - Student Anxiety in Online Learning

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 plunged teachers, students, and their families into online learning at a pace few were prepared for. Overnight, students were thrust into a learning environment they had little or no experience with, and these circumstances have understandably given rise to new anxieties and stressors that families and teachers could not have anticipated.

In this course, you’ll analyze anxiety brought about by technology immersion as an overactive fight-flight-freeze survival response. Based on information systems research, you’ll explore the concept of “technostress” and its triggers, how to spot it in your students, and how it impacts learning. You’ll examine common mistakes in addressing anxiety, as well as how to work with parents to help students through technostress and when to reach out for additional help. Finally, you’ll learn traditional best practices and digital solutions available to students to offset some of the anxiety they’re experiencing.

Using the techniques from this course, you’ll be able to support your students and their families as they navigate this new digital classroom setting.