MIDTESOL 2013: “Engaging Learners, Building Community”

Engaging Learners Through Wikipedia

Engaging Collaborative Learners with Helping Agents

We present the results of a study in which we contrast alternative forms of collaborative learning support in the midst of a collaborative design task in which students negotiate between increasing power and increasing environmental friendliness. Our research question is whether interactive instructional support in collaborative learning environments is more effective when it is offered as soli...

Connecting and Engaging Learners with the WWW

Much use is currently being made of the World Wide Web for flexible delivery and open learning. The WWW supports many forms of instructional applications including information access, interactive learning and networked communications. Most contemporary uses of the Web centre around its capacity to carry and deliver content and information. We believe that much of this use in higher education is...

Building Collaborative Capacities in Learners

In this paper we trace the evolution of a project using a wiki-based learning environment in a tertiary education setting. The project has the pedagogical goal of building learners’ capacities to work effectively in the networked, collaborative, creative environments of the knowledge economy. The paper explores the four key characteristics of a ‘produsage’ environment and identifies four strate...

Engaging Learners in an Enterprise L&K System

We describe a system being designed for a leading provider of enterprise learning solutions, to improve engagement among learners. The system consists of an engagement timing component which estimates a learner’s level of engagement and likely preferred interaction times, and a recommendation component which generates personalized content recommendations. We summarize early results from a recen...