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Student Engagement
Learning science research and practical experience highlight the importance of interaction and engagement to successful learning. Active and collaborative learning environments are particularly effective for Net Generation learners. Games, simulations, group projects, and undergraduate research are among a number of models for interaction and engagement being explored.
Articles and Reports
- The entire issue of the EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine, Volume 32, Number 4, 2009 is devoted to student engagement.
- Engaging Students with Engaging Tools, EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine, Volume 32, Number 4, 2009
- Learning Space Design with an Inclusive Planning Process Promotes User Engagement,EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine, Volume 32, Number 4, 2009
- Assessing the Future: E-Portfolio Trends, Uses, and Options in Higher Education, ECAR Bulletin, February 2009.
- Assessment for Improvement: Tracking Student Engagement Over Time, Annual Results 2009, National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), November 2009
- ELI 7 Things You Should Know About...
- Next-Generation Presentation Tools, January 2010
- Google Wave, November 2009
- Live Question Tool, April 2009
- Alternate Reality Games, January 2009
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Podcasts, Presentations and Videos
- Continuous Improvement in Teaching and Learning: Open Learning Initiative (OLI) and Open Learning Net (OLnet), ELI Web Seminar, January 11, 2010
- Clickers and Peer Instruction: A Powerful Way to Improve Student Engagement and Learning, but Only If You Do It Right ELI Web Seminar, October 05, 2009
- GameQuest: Creating an Education Game Program for Higher Ed, presentation and podcast from the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, October 2008
- Digital Story Making: Understanding the Learner's Perspective, presentation and video from the ELI Annual Conference, January 2008
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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Student Engagement and Interaction
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Focus Session Closing: The MOOC as a Vehicle for Learning: Observations and Conclusions
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April 4, 2013
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A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC
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MOOC Provider Panel: Coursera, Academic Partnerships, Instructure, edX
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April 4, 2013
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A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC
In the span of 24 months, the MOOC has had a major impact on higher education. It has enabled providers of all sorts to innovate and seek solutions to some significant challenges in higher educat…
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International Perspective: The MOOC and Campus-Based Learning
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April 4, 2013
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A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC
MOOCs are primarily associated with the "M" in their acronym-"massive." For many of us, however, the MOOC is an opportunity to enhance the campus-based learning environment. The…
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Assessing the Efficacy of Third-Party MOOCs in Hybrid Instruction
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April 4, 2013
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A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC
The California state legislation's recent move to mandate that public universities award credit for new forms of online instruction such as MOOCs raises questions about how to measure what stu…
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Digging into MOOC Mania: One Investor's Key Research Questions and Approach
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April 4, 2013
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A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC
MOOCs have captured the attention of millions of learners, higher education stakeholders, and the public media. Is it all simply hype or might there be something to be learned or gained from the MO…
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Multiple Lessons Learned from Implementing MOOC Environments at San Jose State University
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April 4, 2013
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A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC
Provost Ellen Junn will briefly describe how SJSU partnered with two MOOC providers (edX and Udacity) to offer four courses for college credit. She'll summarize a number of significant implica…
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Backgrounds and Behaviors of MOOC Participants and Implications for Faculty
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April 4, 2013
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A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC
In spring 2012, the first MIT/edX MOOC, "Circuits and Electronics" (6.002x), was open to students around the world. A team of researchers from MIT and Harvard has been analyzing data gene…
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Using an Open-Source Platform to Meet Online Learning Goals: An Introduction to Class2Go
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April 3, 2013
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A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC
As universities dive deeper into online learning and MOOCs, what role can a platform play in meeting online learning goals? At Stanford, we discovered that developing and using the Class2Go open-so…
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Who Are Our Students? Bridging Local and Global Learning Communities
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April 3, 2013
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A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC
During the first week of March 2013, about 80,000 new students were added to the Vanderbilt University community, thanks to the launch of Vanderbilt's first two MOOCs. MOOCs, our own as well a…
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What's In It for Us? The Benefits to Campus Courses of Running a MOOC
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April 3, 2013
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A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC
The blogosphere likes to talk about what benefits MOOCs bring to the student, but what about to the institution offering them? Specifically, to the "traditional online" or face-to-face co…

















