Engaging students

• Understanding and promoting student engagement in university learning communities [PDF]
  This paper from Kerri-Lee Krause (Keynote presentation at the 2005 JCU Teaching Symposium) explores and extends the concept of engagement, examines the evidence of student (dis)engagement in first year, and offers ten working principles for enhancing student engagement.

• Teaching and Learning Forum 2007: Student Engagement
  A cross-discplinary selection of papers on the theme of student engagement from the Proceedings of the 16th Annual Teaching Learning Forum.

• Aus tralasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE)
  The Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE) is currently being developed by The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and will play an important role in helping universities monitor and enhance the quality of education. Around 30 Australasian institutions are taking part in the inaugural 2007 AUSSE, affirming the importance of student engagement measures for higher education quality.

• Student engagement: deep, surface or strategic? [PDF]
  This paper from Mantz Yorke (Lancaster University) places student engagement in a broad socio-cultural context; discusses, with reference to studies of the first year experience in Australia and the UK, how policy and practice at various levels can influence students’ achievement; and offers some suggestions which may help to increase the level of engagement, and hence students’ success.

• Active Learning in Higher Education
  Active Learning in Higher Education is an international, refereed publication for all those who teach and support learning in Higher Education and those who undertake or use research into effective learning, teaching and assessment in universities and colleges.