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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.

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?

This recording of a webinar organised by The eLearning Guild looks at the common reasons learners disengage in synchronous virtual environments, and which factors you can influence to change this. There are also five pdf resources including a helpful checklist on the features of an engaging online classroom.

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

This blog post shares some concise guidelines for strategies to engage learners using mobile phones. The author makes the valuable point that just making content available on mobile devices through responsive design, does not mean that learners will engage with it. You also have to consider designing learning activities suited to the devices.

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

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?

Take 19 minutes to watch this. It is an inspirational video about different types of student, and how to teach in a way to engage them. Inspiring and useful.

Take 19 minutes to watch this inspiring video about types of student learners and how best to engage them with your teaching.

A technique to help active learning in Physics. A great resource for people engaged in teaching in STEM. This was pioneered by Prof. Eric Mazur from Harvard University and a very well respected educator in Physics

A technique to help active learning in Physics. A great resource for people engaged in teaching in STEM. This was pioneered by Prof. Eric Mazur from Harvard University and a very well respected educator in Physics

video: repository of short video clips about exciting science to appeal to the non-specialist. - A great resource to see effective videos if you want to make some. - Brilliant to show to students and engage them in science

video: repository of short video clips about exciting science to appeal to the non-specialist. - A great resource to see effective videos if you want to make some. - Brilliant to show to students and engage them in science

Changing the context for learning can really stimulate learners to engage with a subject, critically and personally.

Ed, this is something that I have seen with my kids as well. I just wonder whether has anyone of you implemented game like approach to classroom or online classroom.

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.

Ratings on Moodle Forums - thought from TEAP and student feedback - use to allow non-verbal engagement with forum. Numerical rating possible at least - maybe can have a like, agree, disagree, good point etc rating? Adding more opportunity for the lurkers?

Annora, this is what I needed :) Thank you for sharing this resource about Moodle functionality.

How does Problem-Based Learning differ from other approaches to learning? What role does technology play?

A succinct introductory video on podcasting and its use in higher education, highlighting key benefits of student engagement and emphasizing the key realities of the steep learning curve

Well done and thank you! I plan to use this when thinking of my Project design.

The Blackboard Exemplary Course Program began in 2000 with the goal of identifying and disseminating best practices for designing engaging online courses. Blackboard have created an exemplary Course Rubric, which they suggest instructors and course designers use to evaluate how well their course conforms to best practices outlined in the rubric.

Thomas, I wonder whether my Project can benefit of this evaluation rubric?

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 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.

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.

This web resource created by University College Dublin offers guidance on designing or redesigning modules in ways that encourage students to engage in the curriculum and develop deep learning, critical thinking and research skills.

Thomas, thank you for your information. Very useful in identifying this if we need it. btw, why did you post the same comment twice :)