BACKGROUND A patient research internship (Patient and Community Engagement Research program-PaCER) was created to support a provincial commitment by Alberta Health Services' Strategic Clinical Networks™ to find new ways to engage patients in a new interdisciplinary organization to support evidence-informed improvements in clinical outcomes across the health system. OBJECTIVE Implement and tes...

We recap the results of an ITiCSE 2002 Working Group report (Naps et al., 2003), which set the stage for the work described here. That work has resulted in the newest release of a system called JHAVÉ, which fosters active engagement on the part of learners by providing a set of standard support tools for certain types of Algorithm Visualization (AV) systems. These AV engines must implement the ...

There is great interest in the potential of smartphones in enabling language learning during daily activities. However, this overlooks the paradox faced by migrant learners that while they have the educational goal of seeking to improve their language skills, they also have the cultural goal of fitting into the host society. Inappropriate use of smartphones as learning aids makes learners stand...

Demotivation and disengagement of students toward the formal learning curriculum, know an increasingly strong and even alarming proliferation. In this paper, we try to deal with motivation and engagement of learners during learning process and learning experience within a formal context, by the adoption of a Top-Down approach through three levels of design: Macro, Meso, and Micro level. The Mac...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of bureaucratic structure on the employee engagement (ee). our study extends previous researches by considering bureaucracy from two points of view: enabling versus hindering. we study the extent to which these two types of bureaucracy are related to the two forms of employee engagement: organizational (oe) and work engagement (we). the vie...

Given the increasing number of students registering to MOOCs for free, course instructors who want to go beyond automated evaluation have no choice but to use peer assessment. Despite the increasing use of peer evaluation, very little is known regarding the factors that influence assessors’ engagement in the process. Based on two editions of Introduction to Project Management, the first French ...

The study in this paper describes how we used a combination of interaction tracking data and stimulated-recall interviews to evaluate student engagement with two online chemistry modules. An engagement index (IE) was developed and tested for accuracy and validity. The students that appeared to engage well were more likely to be matureage and/or studying in external study mode, extroverts, and v...

This paper introduces a model for creating information literacy learning activities that motivate students. The model draws from informed learning, an approach to information literacy that emphasizes the role that information plays in fostering learning about a subject. Self-determination theory, a motivational theory that focuses on enabling self-determined learners, is applied within the info...

a r t i c l e i n f o Educational technology and instructional design research has focused on evaluating interventions and innovations in terms of their effectiveness, efficiency, and appeal. While such indicators of learning outcomes are important, designers should also strive for engaging, socially just, and transformational instruction. To illuminate the capabilities of adventure learning, w...