...Active Learning in Higher Education http://alh.sagepub.com/ Improving student engagement: Ten proposals for action Nick Zepke and Linda Leach Active Learning in Higher Education 2010 11: 167 DOI: 10.1177/1469787410379680 The online version of this article can be found at: http://alh.sagepub.com/content/11/3/167 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Active Learning in Higher Education can be found at: Email Alerts: http://alh.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://alh.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://alh.sagepub.com/content/11/3/167.refs.html >> Version of Record - Oct 26, 2010 What is This? Downloaded from alh.sagepub.com by guest on December 16, 2012 Article Improving student engagement: Ten proposals for action Nick Zepke and Linda Leach Abstract Active Learning in Higher Education 11(3) 167–177 © The Author(s) 2010 Reprints and permission: sagepub. co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1469787410379680 alh.sagepub.com School of Educational Studies, Massey University, New Zealand Since the 1980s an extensive research literature has investigated how to improve student success in higher education focusing on student outcomes such as retention, completion and employability. A parallel research programme has focused on how students engage with their studies and what...
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...Urdaneta City University S.Y. 2014-2015 Student Experiences with Information Technology and their Relationship to Other Aspects of Student Engagement RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTED BY: EDISON G. MILLET MR. RYAN JASON DELOS REYES WRITING IN DISCIPLINE ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INTRODUCTION In education, student engagement refers to the degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion that students show when they are learning or being taught, which extends to the level of motivation they have to learn and progress in their education. Generally speaking, the concept of “student engagement” is predicated on the belief that learning improves when students are inquisitive, interested, or inspired, and that learning tends to suffer when students are bored, dispassionate, disaffected, or otherwise “disengaged.” Stronger student engagement or improved student engagement are common instructional objectives expressed by educators. In education, the term student engagement has grown in popularity in recent decades, most likely resulting from an increased understanding of the role that certain intellectual, emotional, behavioral, physical, and social factors play in the learning process. For example, a wide variety of research studies on learning have revealed connections between so-called “non-cognitive factors” or “non-cognitive skills” (e.g., motivation, interest, curiosity, responsibility, determination, perseverance, attitude...
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...Philosophy of Classroom Engagement and Management Cheryl Lindsey Grand Canyon University: EDU-536: Classroom Engagement and Management Dr. Strickland September 23, 2015 Philosophy of Classroom Engagement and Management This paper uses annotated bibliographies to discuss key topics of this author’s philosophy of classroom engagement and management. We will look at both, teacher’s role and student’s role. A closer look at the classroom atmosphere and appearance will help us understand how they can make a difference in the learning environment and student’s success. The discussion will end with a look into the relationship of student achievement and classroom engagement and management. Teacher’s role as facilitator Clapper, T. C. (2009, July). Moving away from teaching and becoming a facilitator of learning. Professional Against Improperly Labeling Active Learners: PAILAL Newsletter, 2(2), pp. 1-6. Retrieved from Academia: http://www.academia.edu/1180001/Moving_away_from_teaching_and_becoming_a_facilitator_of_learning Gone are the days of lecturing and teaching by the book. Today’s classrooms are built on helping students learn by engaging and motivating them. Teacher’s need to be flexible enough to stop in the middle of a teaching plan and change gear if they see the plan not keeping the student’s attention. The learning needs to be collaboration between students and teacher. As a facilitator, we guide the students to learning and beyond. It is the teacher’s job to...
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...‘Community engagement’ shows us the ways of how ethical communication can encourage individuals and groups participate and involve in political debates (Demetrious, 2012). It gives individuals in the society has the right and freedom to speak, to challenge, to provoke awareness through participation in public debate. ‘Democracy’ is the conceptual provenance of ‘community engagement’ (Demetrious, 2012). In other words, community engagement plays an important role in our democracy system. As Birch and Glazebrook (2000, p.41) state that corporate is under a great pressure to increase its profit, to keep a good relationship with its investors. Without doubt that ‘spin’ is a strategy for corporate in common use to frame information in a way that can be easily accepted by public who are related tosw. Gare also state that ‘The business community is becoming more isolated from the community at large and looking after its own interests’ (cited in Birch and Glazebrook 2000, p.41). Using the theories of the citizenship (Hudson & Kane 2000) and the communication (Habermas 1989) this essay will discuss the role and relationship of ‘community engagement’ to society and how ‘community engagement’ can be a solution to ethical problems associated with spin. The case study “The Wrribee toxic dump” will be used to demonstrate the arguments. Community engagement is a big theory that included both citizenship theory and communication theory. Hudson and kane (cited in Demetrious 2012, p.2) define...
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...advertisingpretesting The use of negative emotions in advertising Chuck Young, Ameritest, argues that the most effective ads are those that exploit the negative emotions of the consumer to drive advertising impact M ANY ADVERTISERS ARE wary of creating ads that evoke negative emotions in consumers, for fear of creating negative associations with their brand. This is not surprising, since the mental processes involved in transferring emotions generated by advertising to the emotional equity of a brand are not understood: playing with the dark force can be risky. I remember one of the first copy tests we conducted for IBM. Ogilvy had created ‘Blue Letterbox’ TV executions; however, this one had an unusual twist. The commercial had a dark storyline about hackers breaking into a company’s accounting systems and emailing sensitive payroll information to the entire company, but the story ended on a promise that IBM software would keep your systems secure. There was a debate at the highest level about this. Lou Gerstner, then CEO of IBM, who was engaged in his turnaround of the high-tech giant, was not sure about it. Steve Hayden, head creative on the account was a strong advocate. To resolve their debate, the two agreed to research. The lesson from research was that TABLE 1 negative emotion, properly used, can be a powerful driver of commercial performance. The commercial generated strong pre-test scores, and Lou agreed to run it. Tracking data validated the ad’s effectiveness...
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...No. 6, June 2015 Towards a Model of Engaging Online Students: Lessons from MOOCs and Four Policy Documents Khe Foon Hew Abstract—The paper describes a model of engaging students in fully online or blended learning environments. To do this, I first discuss the notion of student engagement and how it relates to the Self-Determination Theory of motivation. Next, I reviewed a number of online learning policy guidelines from four professional councils around the world in order to elicit specific guidelines related to the design of online learning courses, and student engagement. Following that, I analyzed two most highly-rated MOOCs. I analyzed the structural features of the two MOOCs and the comments of both participants who completed the courses, and who partially completed or dropped out. Altogether, comments from 839 participants were examined. Finally, using these empirical data and the policy guidelines from the four professional organizations, I outline a rudimentary model of engaging students in online learning courses, based on six major instructional design elements. Index Terms—Online learning, blended learning, massive open online learning, MOOCs, e-learning, instructional design, engagement, motivation, self-determination theory. I. INTRODUCTION Online learning for both students and teachers has become one of the fastest growing trends in educational uses of technology [1]. Essentially, the main purpose of online learning is to offer learners access to education at...
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...The Use of Guided Notes for Active Engagement during Teacher-Directed Lectures By Anna Jessica B. Pantujan Holy Cross of Davao College, Sta. Ana Ave., Davao City Introduction It has been said that students learn by doing. It follows that if one increases the doing, the result is an increase in learning (Blackwell & McLaughlin, 2005). Research indicates that student achievement improves when teachers provide opportunities for active engagement (Konrad, Joseph & Eveleigh, 2009). The major educational goals of student understanding of content and application of skills are commonly pursued via lecture in classroom settings. Students are held accountable for obtaining information from the lectures, and performance is evaluated on class exams and quizzes. Therefore, students should take thorough notes during lectures so they can refer to the content at a later time (Boyle, 2001). Marzano, Pickering and Pollock (2001) identify note taking as one of the research based strategies for increasing student achievement. Despite the importance of this behavior, however, students are often poor note takers (Austin, Lee & Carr, 2004). Since note-taking can be a difficult task for some students, the use of guided notes can give students a standard set of notes for future references (e.g., tests and quizzes) as well as eliminate the possible frustration, lack of motivation, and off-task behaviors that may exist due to poor note-taking skills (Anderson, Yilmaz &...
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...by permission. Readers should apply the same principles of fair use to the works in this electronic journal that they would to a published, printed journal. These works may be read online, downloaded for personal use, or the URL of a document (from this server) included in another electronic document. The text itself may not be published commercially (in print or electronic form), edited, or otherwise altered without the permission of the author. As with printed materials, care should be taken when excerpting or referencing text to ensure that the views, opinions and arguments of the author accurately reflect those contained in the original work. Applying the Bioecological Theory of Human Development to learning: Enhancing student engagement in online learning. Dr Lindsay Smith University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia L.M.Smith@utas.edu.au Abstract: This paper explores the application of the bioecological theory of human development to online learning and teaching. Bioecological theory advocates that by strengthening human relationships within supportive environments it is possible to increase the extent of development realised into positive outcomes. Likewise through strengthening human connectedness in supportive online learning environments, it is possible to increase the extent of learning...
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...skills include preparation, client arrival, exploring the problem, intervention, and termination. In addition to the helping skills, there are also barriers that an individual may face that the human services professional and the client must overcome together. Helping Skills There is a wide array of skills that is pertinent for a human service professional to possess to help engage the client and have a successful outcome. Some of these skills include: active listening, observing, responding, knowing cultural differences and good communication, both verbal and non-verbal. Active listening is one of the most important skills for a helper to practice. When you actively listen to the client it is easier to relate to the individual and to get a better understanding of what exactly the problem is, as well as what caused the problem. Active listening will and remaining nonjudgmental will help the client to: feel more comfortable, more relaxed, important, understood, be more trusting and possibly even forth coming with information. Active listening, being nonjudgmental and observing will help with assessing the problem and help the client realize that you care and want to provide guidance so they can achieve the goal of self-sufficiency....
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...JUNE 2013 Bulking Up: The 2013 COLLOQUY Loyalty Census Growth and Trends in U.S. Loyalty Program Activity Jeff Berry Sr. Director, Knowledge Development and Application, LoyaltyOne Research Director, COLLOQUY 2.65 BILLION That’s the number of U.S. loyalty program memberships in 2012 Learn why that incredible figure is both good and bad news for loyalty marketers, and how you can profitably respond to it COLLOQUY.COM | 06.13 | 1 Bulking Up: The 2013 COLLOQUY Loyalty Census Growth and Trends in U.S. Loyalty Program Activity Introduction When our 2011 COLLOQUY Loyalty Census revealed that the number of loyalty-program memberships in the U.S. topped 2 billion in 2010, you could almost hear the sound of the industry doing a double-take. Now it’s time to listen for that sound again, because the loyalty tally leaped to 2.65 billion in 2012. Obviously, the loyalty industry is pumping up. And what fascinates us as much as half a billion of pure growth are the reasons behind this continued expansion. Back in 2000, COLLOQUY tallied 973 million memberships in our landmark program sizing study. By the time we published the 2009 COLLOQUY Loyalty Census, that figure had reached 1.8 billion memberships. In the 2011 Census, we noted that the rate of expansion was slowing when we saw only 16.3% growth between 2009 and the eye-popping 2 billion in 2011. But the slowdown was temporary. The current figure of 2.65 billion represents additional 26.7% growth. Where is this bulk...
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...School Context, Student Attitudes and Behavior, and Academic Achievement: An Exploratory Analysis Theresa M. Akey, Ph.D. January 2006 This paper was funded by the William T. Grant Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Principal funding for First Things First comes from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Additional support to supplement the core project comes from the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. A grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts for MDRC’s research methodology initiatives was an important source of funding for the First Things First Classroom Observation Study. Dissemination of MDRC publications is supported by the following funders that help finance MDRC’s public policy outreach and expanding efforts to communicate the results and implications of our work to policymakers, practitioners, and others: Alcoa Foundation, The Ambrose Monell Foundation, The Atlantic Philanthropies, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, Open Society Institute, and The Starr Foundation. In addition, earnings from the MDRC Endowment help sustain our dissemination efforts. Contributors to the MDRC Endowment include Alcoa Foundation, The Ambrose Monell Foundation, Anheuser-Busch Foundation, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Ford Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, The Grable Foundation...
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...vary from business to business. That is why, it is important to know what your objectives are and who your target is. For example, the Ferrari page in Facebook has 5,300,000 of likes. That means that this page is active and has a huge quantity of traffic, but how many of the people that like this page is a Ferrari owner or is a possible buyer for a Ferrari. Even though the majority of the people that like this page are not Ferrari’s owners or possible buyers, they are creating brand awareness that is extremely important for a successful company. The most frequent way used to measure success in social media strategy is measuring traffic. Traffic refers to the activity of the web page or how many people enter to the page. This can be measured per hour, daily, monthly annually or however you want. Using traffic to measure social media is a helpful tool, but we need to have in mind that sometimes quality is better than quantity. Once there is traffic, we can measure interaction. Interaction is the participation of consumers in the webpage, for example ratings, reviews and comments. It is a useful metric because it tells you the kind of traffic you are attracting. Sales is another key tool in social media because it allows to measure the increase or decrease in sales and more important than that, it shows you what is causing the increase in sales. For example, when a...
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...AJ+: Creating Customer Value Through Active Audience Engagement Engagement is in our DNA. -‐ Raja Sharief, AJ+ Strategy Implementation Manager The Reflective Mindset: Changing Trends in the News Media Industry Al Jazeera, along with other traditional news broadcasters, is currently navigating through an industry being disrupted and redefined. Pew Research suggested that by 2018, the preferred medium for interfacing with news will be overwhelming digital in nature through social media, mobile, and web-‐based interaction with increased content personalization with TV-‐based consumption fadingi. Additionally, like its sister-‐industry, the Print News Media, Broadcast news is being challenged by non-‐traditional players in this space, what are being termed “digital natives”, including digital entrepreneurs such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Ebay’s Pierre Omidyar and more traditional digital native news ...
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...ASSIGNMENT 2 (EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT) 1. What is employee engagement and how does it differ, if at all, from related concepts like employee involvement, employee participation and employee consultation? How far is employee engagement something which is genuinely new and distinctive, or is it merely a repackaging of old and well-established ideas? (C) Dilbert.com Employee Engagement – A sanity check Before we look at employee engagement, two things to take into account: A quote attributed to Benjamin Disraeli (despite never appearing in any of his memoirs) “There are lies, damned lies and statistics.” (Wikipedia) There are an increasing number of publications, surveys and studies on employee engagement, with the number steadily increasing for at least a decade. Google Scholar currently lists some 99,100 articles related to employee engagement, with 6460 already in 2012. (Google) Employee Engagement - Origin Employee engagement is neither a new concept nor repackaged old-hat – it is an evolution of how employees have been treated within a company, and how they respond to that treatment. “Before the Industrial Revolution, most, if not all, business was local – the corner shop (store), the family farm. Then the industrial revolution changed what we did, where we lived and what businesses focussed on.” (Achievers) In the post war era, main industry was formed around the mass production model where an employee would perform a set task and have no need to know about how other...
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...Video games today have evolved from the basic structures of Pong and Space Invaders to have complex and film-like narratives. In many ways, games and film are very similar. Despite the similarities, how do video games approach storytelling differently than film, and does this affect the audience? The critical difference between storytelling in games and movies is how each medium engages its audience. Games transform the simple observer to a grand director. With active engagement, versus passive engagement, follows a number of other differences, including interaction, variable outcome, and player agency. The horror game Until Dawn is an applicable example of how the active engagement makes a game stand out from horror films with its outstanding...
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