Student Engagement in Campus-Based and Online Education: University Connections

by Coates; Hamish

• ISBN13: 9780415393959
• ISBN10: 0415393957
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Universities need to better understand their students.Student Engagement in Campus-based and Online Educationpresents a new analysis of the contemporary student experience. It maps out an approach for understanding online learning in campus-based education. With illustrative case studies to augment analysis of the student experience, this book: reviews the incorporation of online learning into higher education pinpoints critical gaps in contemporary understanding and practice offers sophisticated mechanisms for assessing and evaluating student engagement develops rich pictures of key qualities and styles of student engagement advances strategies for leveraging online learning to enhance campus-based education Student Engagement in Campus-based and OnlineEducationis an enduring contribution to our understanding of higher education. It addresses a cluster of issues surrounding the quality of the student experience. Itoffers insights and guidance for faculty and administrators, and will be valuable reading for researchers and academic developers keen to improve their understanding of contemporary student engagement.

Author Biography

Hamish Coates is a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Council for Educational Research and Research Associate of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
List of tables	viii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
PART I Trends and dynamics on campus	1	(66)
1 Engaging learning online and on-campus	3	(12)
2 Student engagement	15	(25)
3 Contemporary campus-based online learning	40	(14)
4 A snapshot of existing insights into student engagement	54	(13)
PART II Empirical strategies for investigating engagement	67	(58)
5 Measuring student engagement	69	(17)
6 A model of student engagement	86	(16)
7 Taking multilevel pictures of student engagement	102	(23)
PART III Harnessing knowledge for educational development	125	(62)
8 Distilling research into general student engagement	127	(21)
9 Developing the online qualities of campus-based education	148	(16)
10 Engaging students to enhance campus-based education	164	(18)
11 Enhancing engagement and higher education	182	(5)
Bibliography	187	(22)
Index	209