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Increasing student engagement and retention using online learning activities : wikis, blogs and webquests /

"Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using Online Learning Activities: Wikis, Blogs and WebQuests uses case studies, surveys, and literature reviews to critically examine how these technologies are being used to improve writing and publishing skills, student subject awareness, and liter...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association
Otros Autores: Wankel, Charles (Editor ), Blessinger, Patrick (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2012.
©2012
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Cutting-edge technologies in higher education ; volume 6A.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using Online Learning Activities: Wikis, Blogs and WebQuests uses case studies, surveys, and literature reviews to critically examine how these technologies are being used to improve writing and publishing skills, student subject awareness, and literacy create engaging communities of practice, and as experiential learning tools. Chapters include ones on the design for a robust use of wikis, using blogs to enhance student engagement by creating a community of practice around a course, integrating blogs across a range of college level courses, publishing activist biographies on Wikipedia, using blogs to increase off-campus student engagement, using video and wiki technology to engage learners in large international cohorts, using wikis as an experiential learning tool, consuming and constructing knowledge through WebQuests, and rethinking WebQuests in second language teacher education. This volume will also discuss frameworks for deploying and assessing the effectiveness of these technologies"--Provided by publisher.
Notas:"Created in partnership with Higher Education Teaching and Learning."
Descripción Física:1 online resource (348 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781781902370
1781902372