A Framework for Student Engagement

2020 ◽  
pp. 153-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desiree' Caldwell ◽  
Tiffany J. Cresswell-Yeager ◽  
Jennifer Aucoin ◽  
Danielle Budenz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Learning Materials ◽  
Online Instructors ◽  
Teaching Online ◽  
Know How

When teaching online, many instructors are provided with a master course that contains the learning materials, discussion forums, assignments, and assessments. With more higher education institutions opting to offer master course shells, it can be difficult for instructors to know how to incorporate their personality, experiences, and insights into a pre-designed course. Faculty who teach online may be searching for ideas on how to personalize their master course and increase student engagement. Many faculty express concerns about students who are disconnected. Personalization of master courses increases student engagement while allowing students and instructors to feel more connected during the course. The authors will explore best practices to increase student engagement and provide a framework to implement these strategies that assist online instructors in demonstrating their personalities and expertise in master courses.

A Framework for Student Engagement

2021 ◽  
pp. 372-390
Author(s):  
Desiree' Caldwell ◽  
Tiffany J. Cresswell-Yeager ◽  
Jennifer Aucoin ◽  
Danielle Budenz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Learning Materials ◽  
Online Instructors ◽  
Teaching Online ◽  
Know How

When teaching online, many instructors are provided with a master course that contains the learning materials, discussion forums, assignments, and assessments. With more higher education institutions opting to offer master course shells, it can be difficult for instructors to know how to incorporate their personality, experiences, and insights into a pre-designed course. Faculty who teach online may be searching for ideas on how to personalize their master course and increase student engagement. Many faculty express concerns about students who are disconnected. Personalization of master courses increases student engagement while allowing students and instructors to feel more connected during the course. The authors will explore best practices to increase student engagement and provide a framework to implement these strategies that assist online instructors in demonstrating their personalities and expertise in master courses.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS: APPLYING US EXPERICENCE TO UKRAINAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

2020 ◽  
pp. 80-85
Author(s):  
Olha Pavlenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Current State

The article discusses the current state of professional training of engineers, in particular, electronics engineers in Ukrainian higher education institutions (HEIs) and explores best practices from US HEIs. The research outlines the features of professional training of electronics engineers and recent changes in Ukrainian HEIs. Such challenges for Ukrainian HEIs as lack of collaboration between higher education and science with industry, R&D cost reduction for HEIs, and downsizing the research and academic staff, the disparity between the available quality of human capital training and the demanded are addressed. The study attempts to identify successful practices of US HEIs professional training of engineers in order to suggest potential improvements in education, research, and innovation for training electronics engineers in Ukraine.

Ubiquitous Game-Based Learning in Higher Education

2014 ◽  
pp. 106-129
Author(s):  
Anna Kasimati ◽  
Sofia Mysirlaki ◽  
Hara Bouta ◽  
Fotini Paraskeva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
New Ideas

The rise of mobile broadband devices and services has significantly changed the role of mobile devices in people's daily lives by enabling the provision of innovative applications and services anywhere, anytime. Despite the fact that new ideas and innovation mainly occur within Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), the adoption of mobile and ubiquitous technologies by HEIs is still in its early stages. This chapter attempts to provide a framework to support Higher Education Institutions towards implementing mobile and ubiquitous, game-based learning activities. Aligned with the objective of this book, this chapter presents some examples and best practices of implementing this framework towards achieving the learning goals of future professionals in the fields of electronic and ubiquitous commerce.

Here Be Dragons

Big Data ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 1717-1735
Author(s):  
Paul Prinsloo ◽  
Sharon Slade
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Open University ◽  
Student Responsibility ◽  
Student Data ◽  
General Data

Learning analytics is an emerging but rapidly growing field seen as offering unquestionable benefit to higher education institutions and students alike. Indeed, given its huge potential to transform the student experience, it could be argued that higher education has a duty to use learning analytics. In the flurry of excitement and eagerness to develop ever slicker predictive systems, few pause to consider whether the increasing use of student data also leads to increasing concerns. This chapter argues that the issue is not whether higher education should use student data, but under which conditions, for what purpose, for whose benefit, and in ways in which students may be actively involved. The authors explore issues including the constructs of general data and student data, and the scope for student responsibility in the collection, analysis and use of their data. An example of student engagement in practice reviews the policy created by the Open University in 2014. The chapter concludes with an exploration of general principles for a new deal on student data in learning analytics.

The Pivotal Role of Faculty in Online Student Engagement and Retention

2016 ◽  
pp. 65-87
Author(s):  
Judi Simmons Estes
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Online Faculty ◽  
Faculty Professional Development ◽  
Online Student ◽  
Teaching Online ◽  
Teaching Culture

The premise of this chapter is that higher education online faculty have a pivotal role in student retention; faculty participation is key to student engagement and engaged students tend to complete courses in which they are enrolled. However, frequently faculty members are unaware of the impact their active participation and visibility has on student engagement and retention. In addition, online courses are an important source of revenue for many institutions of higher education and attrition results in loss of revenue. Given that faculty have a pivotal role in retention, institutions of higher education can benefit fiscally from guiding and supporting online faculty in strategies of student engagement and retention. Faculty support is needed during the process of change inherent in faculty adapting to teaching online, through providing on-going faculty professional development and by creating a teaching culture inclusive of informal scholarly investigations related to instructional effectiveness in online course delivery.

scholarly journals COMPETITIVE AND INTEGRATIVE BENCHMARKING TO ENSURE THE COMPETITIVENESS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2(14)) ◽  
pp. 188-197
Author(s):  
Lyudmyla Mykhailivna Ganushchak-Efimenko ◽  
Olena Mykhailivna Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design ◽  
Valeriia Gennadіivna Shcherbak
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Target Setting ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
Modern System ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Reference Strategy

Urgency of the research. International practice demonstrates that competitive and integrative benchmarking competition gives way to cooperation that may eventually become the driving force in changing the philosophy of the modern system of higher education. Target setting. The study of theoretical and methodological approaches to maintaining effective competitive and integrative benchmarking along with carrying out applied projects facilitating its implementation into the operation of national HEIs seems timely and relevant. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. A study of characteristics of benchmarking as a management tool in education was accomplished by such scholars as N. Jackson, H. Lund, M. Udam, M. Heidmets, Kuźmicz K., Schwarz S., Wersterheijden D. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. The scientists have not yet sufficiently developed the comprehensive analysis of the competitive and integrative benchmarking, including the Higher Eeducation Institutions. The research objective. The article aims to prove the feasibility of competitive and integrative benchmarking to ensure the competitiveness of Higher Education Institutions and their adaptation to market and institutional realia of the domestic economy. The statement of basic materials. The article justifies the feasibility of competitive and integrative benchmarking increasing the competitiveness of national universities. Toolkit of process-oriented approach of benchmarking is based on justification of the reference strategy by comparing competitive advantages in selected 4P-subsystems of benchmarking of management in top universities. Conclusions. The concept of the competitive and integrative benchmarking, developed by the authors as a marketing and management tool facilitating the capacity of Higher Education Institutions to build and maintain their competitive edge, is a synthesis of the competitive analysis mechanism and marketing interaction for the purpose of adapting the best practices by identifying benchmark organizations.

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