Student Engagement Online : ASHE Higher Education Report, Volume 40, Number 6.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Advisory Board -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- Why Engagement? -- Are There Limits to Engagement? -- What Works to Increase Student Engagement in Online Coursework? -- Use Learning Theories That Encourage Engagement -- Focus on Pedagogies and Active Learning Options -- Interact for an Educational Purpose -- Push Students to Think More Deeply -- Teach Students How to Learn -- Evaluate Tools, Both Hardware and Software -- Evaluate Online Classes Over and Over Again -- Assess Student Engagement and Its Effect on Retention and Learning -- Are There Differences in Engagement Between Online and Face to Face? -- Foreword -- Student Engagement in Online Learning: What Works and Why -- Overview -- The Challenges -- Definitions -- Online Learning -- Engagement -- The Basis for Student Engagement on Campus -- Results From the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) -- Importance of Online Learning -- Relevance of Monograph -- Organization of Monograph -- Summary -- Learning Theories and Student Engagement -- Overview -- Community of Inquiry -- The Basic Model -- The Community of Inquiry (CoI) Instrument -- Research on the Community of Inquiry Model -- Impact on Engagement, Retention, and Community -- Future Developments -- Constructivist Learning -- Experiential Learning and Active Learning -- Authentic Learning -- Transformational Learning -- Online Community -- Cognitive Engagement -- Transactional Distance Theory -- Summary -- Techniques for Student Engagement Online -- Overview -- Moore's Interaction/Engagement Strategies -- Student-Student -- Student-Content -- Student-Teacher -- Critique -- Student-Activity -- Online Discussions -- Active or Authentic Pedagogies -- Instructor Activities -- Student Preparation and Skills -- Use of Instructional Design -- Multiple Paths -- Use of Technologies and a Caution.

Gender, Ethnicity, and Other Differences -- Guides to Engagement Online -- Research Needed -- Summary -- Effects From Student Engagement Online -- Overview -- Engagement and Student Learning -- Engagement and Other Outcomes -- Research Needed -- Summary -- Limits to Student Engagement -- Overview -- Characteristics of Students -- Characteristics of Instruction -- Research Needed -- Summary -- Next Steps -- Overview -- Theories to Use -- Instructor, Know Your Students -- Learn How to Learn -- Be Clear About Educational Objectives -- Some Lessons About Engagement Strategies -- Instructor, Know Yourself -- Help for Administrators -- Future Research -- Helpful Directions for the Future -- Summary -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- About the Author -- About the ASHE Higher Education Report Series -- Call for Proposals -- EULA.

What makes online learning engaging to students? Engagement depends upon designing learning that is active and collaborative, authentic and experiential, constructive and transformative. While students and instructors can inadvertently act in several ways to decrease student engagement in online coursework, research indicates a range of options that have been proven to engage students in their online courses. This report explores the learning theories, pedagogies, and active learning options that encourage student engagement, push them to think more deeply, and teach them how to learn. It guides instructors on how to evaluate the effectiveness of technological and software tools, and to evaluate and assess the activities, learning, and retention occurring in their online classes. Finally, it will help instructors find inspiration for engagement from the face-to-face settings that can be translated into the online environment.This is the 6th issue of the 40th volume of the Jossey-Bass series ASHE Higher Education Report. Each monograph is the definitive analysis of a tough higher education issue, based on thorough research of pertinent literature and institutional experiences. Topics are identified by a national survey. Noted practitioners and scholars are then commissioned to write the reports, with experts providing critical reviews of each manuscript before publication.

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