Why Online Engagement? (Engaging Online)

Why Online Engagement?

What research on engagement tells us

Astin, A.W. (1997). What matters in college? Four critical years revisited. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Cooper, James L. (2006). A baker's dozen: Ideas to foster engagement. Exchanges: The on-line journal of teaching and learning in the CSU. Retrieved August 20, 2008, from http://www.calstate.edu/ITL/exchanges/classroom/1251_Cooper.html.

Kuh, G. (2005). Putting student engagement results to use. Assessment Update, 17(1), 12-13.

Kuh, G. et al. (2005). Student success in college: Creating conditions that matter. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Also see excerpt retrieved September 5, 2008 from http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/47/07879791/0787979147.pdf

National Survey of Student Engagement (Kuh, Ewell, NCHEMS, et al.)

Community College Survey of Student Engagement

Why engagement?

Engagement...it's the factor we know makes the difference in student learning outcomes.

Students who report engagement (interaction, involvement) of the following kinds get better grades
and graduate at higher rates:

with students in class
with students outside of class
with course content
with instructors in class
with instructors outside of class

Why online?

That's where students are.

It's where they make and maintain relationships.

It's where they talk about their studies.

Research on online social networking
Mazer, J. P., Richard E. Murphy, & Simonds, C. J. (2007). I'll see you on "Facebook:" The effects of computer-mediated teacher self-disclosure on student motivation, affective learning, and classroom climate. Communication Education, 56(1), 1-17.

National School Boards Association. (2007). Creating & connecting: Research and guidelines on online social and educational networking (p. 12). Retrieved August 20, 2008, from http://www.nsba.org/site/view.asp?CID=63&DID=41340.

Shiu, Eulynn, L. A. (2004). How Americans use instant messaging, Pew Internet & American Life Project. (p. 28). Pew Foundation. Retrieved August 20, 2008, from http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Instantmessage_Report.pdf.

Social Networks Research and Creative Collaborative at the University of Minnesota

What she said...
Our students live online. They fall in love, they shop, they order pizza on the Web. Their iPods, TV's, and Xboxes are sophisticated technologies. They instant-message their blogs from their cellphones, and they can't picture college having a place in any of this, because we haven't shown them that it can.

It will be a dismal future if the only thing our graduates cannot do online is learn.
- Judith Tabro n, Hofstra University

Questionnaire (created in Google Spreadsheet Forms)

Subpages (1): File Cabinet

Engaging Online