The aim of the paper is to integrate notions of the improvement of student learning through a
focus on the concept of engagement, and adds to that broader discussion through a recent …

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book explores the nature of student engagement (SE) in Higher …

Higher Education in the United Kingdom has rather lagged behind other countries in
developing an interest in, scholarly research on, and realisation about the importance of …

Abstract'Student engagement', defined as students' involvement with activities and
conditions likely to generate high-quality learning, is increasingly understood to be important …

At the heart of this paper is the idea that student engagement is a complex business. It
examines a number of conceptual engagement frameworks that show how this complexity …

Student engagement is important to further and higher education institutions: it is understood
to be a proxy for quality teaching and governments attach a proportion of funding to student …

The rapid growth in the student population observed in higher education over the past 10–
15 years in some countries has coincided with an increased recognition of student …

Student engagement is emerging as a key focus in higher education, as engagement is
increasingly understood as a prerequisite for effective learning. This paper reports on the …

Student engagement is highly visible in higher education research about learning and
teaching, but lacks a single meaning. It can be conceived narrowly as a set of student and …

Since the 1980s an extensive research literature has investigated how to improve student
success in higher education focusing on student outcomes such as retention, completion …