scholarly journals IEngage: Using Technology to Enhance Students’ Engagement in a Large Classroom

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sukanlaya Sawang ◽  
Peter O'Connor ◽  
Muhammad Ali
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Classroom Technology ◽  
Student Response ◽  
Student Response System ◽  
First Year ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Intent To Use ◽  
Classroom Technology Integration ◽  
The Relationship

<p class="JLDAbstract">This paper aims to answer how we can increase students’ engagement in a large class. We hypothesised that the use of KeyPad, an interactive student response system, can lead to enhanced student engagement in a large classroom.  We tested a model of classroom technology integration enhancing the students’ engagement among first year undergraduate students (n=131).  This study provides evidence of significant effect of positive attitude and social pressure on the intent to use KeyPads. In turn, the intent to use KeyPads leads to the actual use of KeyPads which is directly associated with the level of student engagement. In addition, we find evidence for the relationship between extraversion and level of engagement such that compared to extrovert students, introvert students felt more engaged.</p>

scholarly journals Emotional competence and Student Engagement of the First Year Undergraduate Students in Kerala

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jomon K J ◽  
Romate John Ph.D
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Emotional Competence ◽  
First Year ◽  
Reciprocal Relationships ◽  
Widespread Agreement ◽  
Success In Higher Education ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the relationship between emotional competence and student engagement of the first year undergraduate students in Kerala. Research into both student engagement and student emotional competence is on the increase, with widespread agreement that both are critical determinants of student success in higher education. Less researched are the complex, reciprocal relationships between these important influences. The study was conducted among 600 hundred first year undergraduate students from 12 colleges of the four districts of Kerala. The results demonstrate that there is a significant and positive relationship with the variables of the study. The study throws up conclusively that higher the emotional competence better will be the student engagement.

scholarly journals Academic Press and Student Engagement: Can Academic Psychological Capital Intervene? Test of a Mediated Model on Business Graduates

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Meryem Fati ◽  
Umair Ahmed ◽  
Waheed Ali Umrani ◽  
Fazluz Zaman
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Private University ◽  
Academic Press ◽  
Academic Efficacy ◽  
Business Graduates ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
The Relationship

Psychological wellbeing has gained much prominence over the recent years. Parallel to organizational domains, empirical attention is also being paid across the academics as well. The present study attempted to examine the much important role and relationship between academic press and student engagement and to what length academic psychological capital can potentially mediate in the relationship. A total of 371 undergraduate students were sampled for the present study from a private university in Bahrain. Through using structural equation modelling using Smart PLS 3 the results of the mediated model reported significant relationship between academic press and academic psychological capital (i-e academic efficacy and resilience). Though the study did not find any support for academic press and student engagement relationship, nonetheless, found a significant mediation of academic psychological capital in the relationship between academic press and student engagement. The findings have suggested that students’ perceptions about how much their teacher presses them to do thoughtful work, facilitation in explaining and motivating for full efforts can act as a key ingredient for nurturing students` connectivity with the studies in general and views about their own learning. Accordingly, the study has also underlined that students with positive academic press from their teachers tend to be higher in engagement due to enhanced efficacy and resilience. The present study has attempted to address a major research gap with acute empirical findings for academicians to enhance their students` wellbeing. 

Mobile Voting Systems for Creating Collaboration Environments and Getting Immediate Feedback

2015 ◽  
pp. 2141-2158
Author(s):  
Svetlana Titova ◽  
Tord Talmo
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Student Response ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Student Response System ◽  
Immediate Feedback ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Learners

Mobile devices can enhance learning and teaching by providing instant feedback and better diagnosis of learning problems, helping design new assessment models, enhancing learner autonomy and creating new formats of enquiry-based activities. The objective of this paper is to investigate the pedagogical impact of mobile voting tools. The authors' research demonstrated that Student Response System (SRS) supported approaches influenced not only lecture design - time management, the mode of material presentation, activity switch patterns - but also learner-teacher interaction, student collaboration and output, formats of activities and tasks. SRS-supported lectures help instructors gradually move towards flipped classrooms and MOOC lecturing. The authors' analysis, based on qualitative and quantitative data collected from two student groups (56 undergraduate students) in the 2012-2013 academic year, showed that SRS supported lectures encouraged foreign language learners to produce more output in the target language, improved their intercultural competence and language skills and enhanced their motivation.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Relationship between Learning Environment and Student Engagement 个体背景和学习环境因素对来华本科留学生学习投入的影响

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (S(1)) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Genshu Lu ◽  
Lijie Li ◽  
Mei Tian
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
International Student ◽  
Perceived Learning ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Education In China ◽  
The Relationship

Drawing on the data generated by a survey involving 1,428 international undergraduate students in China, this article analyzed the relationship between the participants’ perceived learning environment and their self-reported engagement in academic activities. The findings revealed the participants’ uneven participation in academic activities. Based on their self-reported levels of student engagement, the participants were categorized into three types: i.e. active engagement (23.2%), lack of engagement (45.8%) and inadequate engagement (31.0%). In line with the previous research findings, this research confirmed a significant relationship between international students’ perceived learning environment and their engagement in academic studies. Suggestions were given for the enhancement of international student education in China. 本研究应用对1428名来华本科留学生的调查数据，探讨了来华留学生的学习投入状态，以及个体因素和学习环境因素对其学习投入的影响。研究发现，就总体而言，来华本科留学生感知的学习环境处于良好状态，他们的学习投入程度则处于一般偏低水平；根据来华本科留学生学习投入情况，可将其学习投入类型分为高投入型、低投入型和欠投入型三类，分别占比23.2%，45.8%，31.0%；个体因素和学习环境因素对来华本科留学生的学习投入程度具有一定的显著影响。为提高来华留学生的学习投入程度，一方面要从来华留学生自身出发，提高学习自觉性，增强学习投入水平；另一方面，要根据来华本科留学生的个体背景采取胡针对性的策略，同时通过营造良好的学习环境来提升来华本科留学生的学习投入水平，帮助其获得更好的在华留学经历。

scholarly journals UniDoodle: A Multi-Platform Smart Device Student Response System – Evaluated in an Engineering Mathematics Classroom

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Seamus McLoone ◽  
Christine Kelly ◽  
Conor Brennan ◽  
Caitriona NiShe
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Classroom ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Student Response ◽  
Smart Device ◽  
Student Response System ◽  
First Year ◽  
Mathematics Students ◽  
Response System ◽  
Engineering Mathematics ◽  
Mathematical Equations

Most of the existing student response systems, such as clickers, have limited input capabilities, typically only offering students a multiple-choice selection. In some instances, students can input a numerical or textual response. However, mathematical equations, diagrams, etc. are all beyond the capabilities of such systems. This paper proposes and presents a novel multi-platform smart device-based student response system, called UniDoodle, that allows for a more generic and flexible input. This system consists of a student application that allows for freeform input through sketching capabilities, a lecturer application that allows easy viewing of multiple sketch-based responses and a cloud-based service for co-ordinating between these two applications. In essence, students can now respond to a question posed by the lecturer using sketches and, hence, mathematical equations, circuit diagrams, graphs, etc. are all possible on the UniDoodle system. In addition, the lecturer can now gain a richer and more useful insight to the students’ understanding of the relevant material. This paper also evaluates the UniDoodle system in a large class of first year Engineering Mathematics students. Details of the UniDoodle system, the evaluation process and the feedback obtained are all presented within.

Enhancing Student Engagement Using a Blended Learning Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 51-68
Author(s):  
M. Mahruf C. Shohel ◽  
Rosemary Cann ◽  
Stephen Atherton
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Action Research Cycles

Student engagement is the core of the teaching and learning practice in higher education. This exploratory action research project was designed to enhance teaching and learning using a blended learning approach to increase student engagement prior, during, and after lecture and seminar sessions of a module run for first-year undergraduate students. Within an academic semester, three action research cycles were carried out to collect data and redesign the classroom practice. Different data collection techniques were used along with Microsoft OneNote Class Notebook. This article presents three case studies of individual students to demonstrate how the digital workspace helped to develop the practice of participatory teaching and learning during a first-year undergraduate module. This study indicates that listening to students' voices through a blended learning approach helped to increase student engagement, thus increasing student participation in shaping and redesigning teaching and learning to engage them within the classroom and beyond.

Mobile Voting Systems for Creating Collaboration Environments and Getting Immediate Feedback

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Titova ◽  
Tord Talmo
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Student Response ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Student Response System ◽  
Immediate Feedback ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Learners

Mobile devices can enhance learning and teaching by providing instant feedback and better diagnosis of learning problems, helping design new assessment models, enhancing learner autonomy and creating new formats of enquiry-based activities. The objective of this paper is to investigate the pedagogical impact of mobile voting tools. The authors' research demonstrated that Student Response System (SRS) supported approaches influenced not only lecture design - time management, the mode of material presentation, activity switch patterns - but also learner-teacher interaction, student collaboration and output, formats of activities and tasks. SRS-supported lectures help instructors gradually move towards flipped classrooms and MOOC lecturing. The authors' analysis, based on qualitative and quantitative data collected from two student groups (56 undergraduate students) in the 2012-2013 academic year, showed that SRS supported lectures encouraged foreign language learners to produce more output in the target language, improved their intercultural competence and language skills and enhanced their motivation.

Using the WebQuest Approach to Elicit Student Engagement in a University Course

2018 ◽  
pp. 454-478
Author(s):  
Stephen Asunka
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
First Year ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Student Activities ◽  
Student Grades ◽  
University Course

Following a realization that first year undergraduate students at a private university in Ghana engaged very minimally in their learning processes, and consequently obtained very weak grades in their courses, this study adopted a qualitative research approach to investigate whether the integration of a WebQuest into the learning processes can help foster student engagement through interactivity, and thus improve learning outcomes. Five students and one instructor participated in the study, and over the course of one academic semester, teaching and learning processes were varied by introducing WebQuest-based learning. Data were gathered by observing student activities as they engaged in the learning processes, and also assessing student learning and satisfaction by looking at student grades and also administering a survey questionnaire to students. Findings indicate that educational technologies such as the WebQuest can potentially foster student engagement in learning and also help improve learning outcomes. Implications of these findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Enabling Valuation of Nutrition Integration into MBBS Program

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niikee Schoendorfer ◽  
Jennifer Schafer
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Nutritional Assessment ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Student Response ◽  
Student Response System ◽  
First Year ◽  
Good Nutrition ◽  
Initial Survey ◽  
Assessment Procedures

Good nutrition is the foundation for good health. While basic nutritional assessment is part of many medical consultations, it remains underutilized despite becoming increasingly recognized as important for chronic disease prevention and management. Many studies identify shortfalls in physicians’ knowledge and attitudes toward nutrition as a result of inadequate emphasis in medical school. Additional teaching about nutrition and nutritional assessment procedures was integrated within a first year module of a MBBS program. Blended learning techniques were employed to facilitate student engagement and sessions were evaluated via student response system technology (clickers) or minute paper feedback. The initial survey to all medical students (n=1037) documented that less than half (45%) felt they could discuss nutrition with patients. The majority (n=606) regularly consulted the internet for nutrition information, while only 163 utilised peer-reviewed journals. With the first year cohort (n=297) “clickers” revealed that 91% felt nutrition important to health care and 82% felt it important in general practice. 71% found using clickers an interesting enhancement, whilst 70% noted the nutrition content informative. Early nutrition teaching was well received by students. Long-term increases in nutritional information dissemination, particularly by influential health care workers, might benefit not only economies but also the health of society as a whole.

scholarly journals Students as partners in e-contents creation: A case study exploring student-staff partnership for learning and student engagement using digital applications for co-creation of e-learning materials

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-119
Author(s):  
Nurun Nahar ◽  
Duncan Cross
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
First Year ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Learning Materials ◽  
Content Creation ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Enhanced Learning

In order to enable learners to take control of their learning needs and actively contribute in their learning processes, educators can partner with students in various reciprocal student-staff partnership (SSP) settings where students can be co-creators, co-producers, curators, or co-deliverers of the curriculum. Our project, undertaken to enhance the curriculum as part of a teaching qualification, places emphasis on educators partnering with first-year undergraduate students over e-content creation within an existing module, using readily accessible digital applications in order to promote active learning in students and improve student engagement. In this case study, we evaluate the extent to which SSP, as an approach to the creation of e-learning materials using digital applications, enhanced learning and student engagement in an existing module. Our student partners perceived SSP to be an excellent platform for learning, actively engaging in the classroom, and developing skills such as communication and digital literacy. However, they expressed some concerns about overcoming the traditional hierarchies within our SSP initiative

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