A commonly-held belief is that many university students are ‘assessment-driven’; is, engage more with activities assessed compared those not. ‘Incentivised engagement’ includes the practice of providing incentives (such as marks or otherwise) for to in particular activities. Perusall a social annotation platform designed increase student engagement pre-class reading. In this study, second-year ...

Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) can be used as a resource repository but also as an environment to encourage independent student learning. Customised online assignments that can be assembled by the lecturer can be found in teaching resources such as Mastering Biology, developed by Pearson Publishers. In this study, student engagement in both summative and formative assignments was measured...

The increasing prevalence of chronic conditions among older adults constitutes a major public health problem. Thus, changes in lifestyles are required to prevent secondary conditions and sustain good care practices. While patient engagement received great attention in the last years as key strategy to solve this issue, to date no interventions exist to sustain the engagement of older chronic pa...

background employee engagement is the emotional commitment of the employee towards the organisation. we aimed to analyse baseline work engagement using utrecht work engagement scale (uwes) at a teaching hospital.   methods we have conducted a cross-sectional study within the national health service (nhs) teaching hospital in the uk. all participants were working age population from both genders...

This commentary offers a coherent reading of the papers presented in special issue ‘Exclusion, Engagement, and Empathy: Reflections on Public Participation Medicine Technology’. Focusing...