Activating Student Engagement Through Drama-Based Instruction

Improving Student Thinking Through Elementary Art Instruction

Increasing English Language Learners ’ Engagement in Instruction through Emotional Scaffolding

Mi-Hwa Park is an assistant professor in the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education of the College of Education at Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky. tential for improvement in ELLs’ learning engagement. Indeed, learning engagement is a strong indicator of academic success (Hyson, 2008). In the context of teaching ELLs, however, little information is available on discuss...

Leveraging LMSs to Enhance Campus-Based Student Engagement Learning management systems influence student engagement and learning

We need to better understand the influence of learning management systems (LMSs) on student engagement in order to use these powerful technologies to improve campus-based education. Over the past 10 years, online learning management has been adopted by many campus-based institutions, becoming almost ubiquitous in many parts of the world. These systems have profound yet uncertain implications fo...

Activating and Guiding the Engagement of Seniors through Social Media

Student engagement and foreign language learning through online social networks

Introduction: Nowadays, one of the most important questions in teaching and learning involves increasing the degree of students’ engagement in learning. According to Astin’s Theory of Student engagement, the best learning environment is one in which it is possible to increase students’ engagement. The current study investigates the influences that using these networks for educational purposes m...