Engaging with your Students

Student Engagement

Educational research highlights that engaged students have increased motivation, focus, and higher-level skills in the learning process, which promotes meaningful learning experiences. Being student-centered with your Instructional approach increase opportunities for student engagement.

 

Providing In-course Feedback 

In the learning process, providing students with effective and meaningful feedback has been proven to increase student growth and mastery of the leaning outcomes. Relevant, timely, specific, and functional feedback is an instructional mode that guides the student and helps them to become more engaged. Here are some resources on providing feedback:

• Providing feedback for student learning- Curtin University  Links to an external site.
• Providing effective feedback to students- University of Melbourne Links to an external site.
• Five Strategies for Giving Effective Feedback Links to an external site.

 

Teaching & Learning Resources:

• The Internet and Higher Education: A Quarterly Review of Innovations in Post-secondary Education Links to an external site.
• Delivery Best Practices Northern Illinois University - Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center  Links to an external site.
• Flipped Classroom- University of Texas- Faculty Innovation Center Links to an external site.
• Faculty Focus Links to an external site.
• Facilitating online. University of Cape Town Links to an external site.