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Highlights * We explore factors affecting students' engagement with Moodle and Facebook. * Students were not interested in using Moodle, yet active on Facebook. * We use Activity Theory as a lens for data interpretation. * Factors are categorized as technological, individual, and community levels.

Hello there, Thanks for sharing this Ivan - good one I hope I can effectively operationalize some ideas. Thanks Z

Interesting! As are a number of the papers suggested afterwards which I will bookmark too! As an aside you may be interested in the paper Cass Business School students present to the Moodle Research Conference last year: http://research.moodle.net/mod/data/view.php?d=7&rid=124 One point of interest I'm keen to follow is the possible rise in more student-led studies (at City?) - in this case, both surveying students and by students. I'm also interested in how we could look more at involving learners in the design process.

This blog post shares students views' on mobile learning from a survey carried out at the University of Liverpool. One of the most interesting aspects of this post is the summary of student views in response to the question; 'How would you expect to use mobile devices at University?'

Thomas thank you for sharing. I wonder whether digital natives and "others" would have different opinion? Also I can not guess on how much of a difference would UG students have to part time PG students. Do you have any idea on that or maybe a good resource to look at?

How can we make students take ownership of their learning process? This video explores some examples from Alan November. He tells anecdotes of when student feel they have a purpose to their work/learning and a legacy to leave: how positively this impacts the learning process.

How can we make students take ownership of their learning process? This video explores some examples from Alan November. He tells anecdotes of when student feel they have a purpose to their work/learning and a legacy to leave: how positively this impacts the learning process.

brilliant online resource for maths! Contains tutorials created by high school students, as well as teachers. The style and approach appeals to students since it is created by their own peers who think like them

brilliant online resource for maths! Contains tutorials created by high school students, as well as teachers. The style and approach appeals to students since it is created by their own peers who think like them

The purpose of this report is to examine the latest issues and trends in course evaluation. In-depth interviews have been conducted with 10 senior academics and student representatives to draw out a general sense of how universities are currently approaching the 'process' of student surveys, and what improvements need to be made to gain more effective student feedback on courses and lecturer

Another study looking at the relationship between social media use and academic achievement/engagement. Interesting that here some activities are more likely to have a positive impact. Are these the kind of interactions we could encourage by embracing learners' connectedness and engagement with social media? ► Students who spent more time on Facebook scored lower on an engagement scale. ► There was no relationship between time spent on Facebook and time spent studying. ► Students who spent more time on Facebook spent more time in campus activities. ► In general, Facebook activities were more strongly predictive of engagement. ► Some Facebook activities were negative predictors, while others were positive.

This academic paper discusses strategies for encouraging first year undergraduate students to participate in online discussion. It looks at Salmon's five stage model to engage students and the responsibility that lecturers have to initiate purposeful activities that promote community development.

Thomas, it seems that there has been lot of thoughts on UG. Have you found any info on PG students as well?

Queen Mary carried out a useful survey on their students' experience of their Moodle VLE in 2012/13. This report is very detailed and thorough. It covers many similar issues to those we have faced at City University and many of the learning points and recommendations are relevant to us.

A lighthearted look at how to re-engage bored students. Activity was introducing a wiki and a expectations are detailed.

Would "bored" describe accomplished full time working professionals doing a part time PG programme?

Brilliant article discusses how students learning styles affect student preferences & use of web technologies

A recent review on factors influencing student engagement. Small technology focus, but of general interest to learning design

This web article published by Faculty Focus suggests that students are more willing to ask questions and interact with their fellow students in face to face settings if they have been offered the opportunity to engage through synchronous online tools. It then outlines reasons why these tools are beneficial for learning.

Now this was and is interesting. Thanks mr T

This web article looks at the question of how can we enable students to construct knowledge and demonstrate higher order thinking skills online? The authors provide a helpful critique of superficial attempts to build sustainable online communities for example where LMS's are used for the transmission of content in higher education and do not allow students to build knowledge or engage in higher order thinking.

an interesting debate on the effectiveness of students evaluation

Explains the concept and application of Just In Time Teaching and how to engage students

Explains the concept and application of Just In Time Teaching and how to engage students

Explains the concept and application of Just In Time Teaching and how to engage students

A resource I developed in order to effectively convey to students the task they would be undertaking as part of the coursework. This enabled students to mentally prepare for the task at hand.

This paper published by The Open University looks at how social presence can be used to engage students with online learning. It outlines the benefits and problems of online communication for learning and then looks at the pros and cons of different online communication tools.

Case studies on reflective blogging and a wiki (the latter in an LTA context): components, marking, team charter, outcomes.

Reflection is one of my "challenges" at the moment. I hope that some ideas from this resource might help.