Leveraging Engagement and Participation in e-Learning with Trust

This article describes a project that builds on authors previously body of knowledge on Trust and uses it to leverage higher levels of engagement in eLearning contexts. The presented research aims to investigate on unobtrusively strategies to evaluate a toolset of Trust indicators that monitor trust levels thus facilitating the deployment of trust level regulation interventions. So far results include project concepts, the design, develop and implementation of tools and indicators to measure trust in eLearning formal contexts. The Project underlying hypotheses aims in real time offering possible future directions to the study of the roles of learning engagement, participation and overall sustainability to support selfdirected and sustainable learners activities that imply a strong need for cooperation between learners and learning systems and technologies, and between learners through systems and technologies in the context of open learning scenarios.