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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
- Ustream, October 2008
- Wii, July 2008
- Second Life, June 2008
- Digital Storytelling, January 2007
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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Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Student Engagement and Interaction
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Creating an Open Web 2.0 Cloud E-Learning Experience
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October 15, 2010
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference
Open blogs and cloud platforms such as Facebook have great educational potential. This session will present how Penn State University's reengineering of its Biology 12 introductory biology lab…
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Making Connections: Using Technology to Increase Student Engagement and Success
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May 3, 2010
Fostering student engagement through technology requires institutions to meet students where they are—literally, figuratively, and virtually—and help them get to where they need to be. In thi…
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Social Media for Academic Purposes
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March 9, 2010
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2010
This session will describe how Facebook and a visually designed website were used to engage students in a psychology course. It will detail a successful student-driven role-play activity where stud…
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Being Mobile in an Open World: Implementing Social Media to Engage Students
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March 16, 2010
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2010
As social and information processes around us are transforming, how can we embrace current themes of openness, mobility, and networking to engage students for learning? This session will discuss s…
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Blogging in the Classroom: Bane or Blessing?
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March 10, 2010
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2010
This panel session will feature an interactive discussion of how to use blogs to enhance student learning. Students, faculty, and an instructional technology specialist panelist will discuss their …
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Twitter Symbiosis: A Librarian, a Hashtag, and a First-Year Seminar (Innovative Practice)
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January 19, 2010
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A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010
Tweeting in the classroom has started to take off, with some notable examples such as Monica Rankin's history class experiment at UT-Dallas and Cole W. Camplese's classroom backchannel at…
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Social Software in Higher Education: Isolated Accidents or the Start of Something Big?
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October 24, 2007
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference
Blogs, wikis, and networking tools appear to gain widespread acceptance. How are higher education professionals using social software tools in their practice? Is there any convergence with what stu…
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Teaching and Learning Experiences in a User-Created Virtual World
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October 25, 2007
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference
Second Life is a user-created virtual world simultaneously played by thousands of people around the world. In this session, we'll share our experiences of teaching in Second Life. Using the in…
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Emerging Worlds: Transformative Technologies for Teaching and Learning
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September 17, 2007
Web 2.0 projects have rapidly expanded into a world of social media. From blogs to podcasts, millions of people have published and shared a growing amount of digital content. At the same time vir…
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Net Generation Students and Campus IT: Supporting Student Success in the Age of Multitasking, Facebooking, and Instant Messaging
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June 13, 2007
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2007
What do we need to know to support student success in all facets of their higher education experience? IT services affect the success of students from the day they begin searching for a program or …
