Student Engagement and Interaction

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Student Engagement and Interaction

If You Badge It, Will They Engage? Gamification Principles in Online Courses

February 5, 2013

Motivation (and the associated engagement) in online classes is both the linchpin to success and arguably the most difficult element to inspire in students. The principles of gaming offer clues t…

Designing Games That Teach and Assess Learning Outcomes

February 15, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2012 Annual Meeting

Games have a high potential for learning. Games can also assess learning outcomes. How can this potential be realized? We report on a method developed by the Games for Learning Institute (G4LI) to …

Do the Math! Increasing Student Engagement and Learning

February 13, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2012 Annual Meeting

Many colleges have low success rates in their developmental math programs. Do the Math is a Next Generation Learning Challenges Wave 1 project that seeks to address this problem by increasing stude…

Design for Learning: Waiting for Superman vs. Empowering Superheroes

February 15, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

We're entering a transformative time for education, with new technologies positioned to disrupt the known market and system. Though pioneering, many of the past century's technologies fai…

Using Technology to Engage Students - Sponsored by Turning Technologies, An EDUCAUSE Bronze Partner

February 14, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

It has been suggested that the lack of interaction in large lecture courses is to blame for the many problems facing these courses: declining enrollments, low attendance, poor evaluations, and d…

A Campus-Based Alternate Reality Game (Pilot Program/Emerging Technology)

February 14, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

Alternate reality games merge the real world with the online world and game characters with game players. In spring 2010, UNC–Chapel Hill conducted its first ARG, designed to help undergraduates …

The iDEAL Makeover: A University-Wide Transition to Blended Courses

September 15, 2010 | A session at the ELI 2010 Online Fall Focus Session

As an emergent university built on a rich heritage and commitment to innovation, Brandman University, part of the Chapman University system, had a unique opportunity to redesign its course delive…

Crowdsourcing the LMS: Using Students to Collect Meaningful Data on How Instructors Use the LMS

October 13, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

Carleton University used crowdsourcing to collect information on how instructors use the institution's learning management system. This session will examine the concept of crowdsourcing, the c…

Games: The Best Way to Learn. Period.

October 14, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

In an age of distraction, information overload, and disengagement, traditional methods of conveying information to students are increasingly ineffective. In this session, we argue that games—with…

Lowering the Barriers to Mobile Device Adoption

March 3, 2010 | A session at the ELI 2010 Online Spring Focus Session

Central Michigan University has launched an initiative to dramatically increase the engagement of incoming education students through a combination of technologies centered on Apple's iPod t…