Conceptualising Gifted Student (Dis) Engagement through the Lens of Learner (Re) Engagement

The immunity game: conceptual learning through learner engagement.

Conceptual Learning Through Learner Engagement Immunity affects the health and well-being of all individuals. For this reason, few would argue that this concept is foundational to nursing practice. However, it is complex, and finding ways to teach this concept to undergraduate nursing students in a meaningful way is challenging. Learning is most effective when students are actively engaged, whe...

Classifying Learner Engagement through Integration of Multiple Data Sources

Intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) can provide effective instruction, but learners do not always use such systems effectively. In the present study, high school students’ action sequences with a mathematics ITS were machineclassified into five finite-state machines indicating guessing strategies, appropriate help use, and independent problem solving; over 90% of problem events were categorized....

Enhancing Personalization and Learner Engagement

Context-aware technologies promise great potential in technology enhanced learning (TEL). However, as transformation arises in educational set up as a result of the use of context-aware technologies, so is the challenge emerging of applying sound pedagogical foundation when employing these technologies. Furthermore, despite the fact that context-aware systems offer potential to cater for differ...

Re-engaging with engagement

A neurofeedback system to promote learner engagement

This report describes a series of experiments that track novice programmer’s engagement during two attention based tasks. The tasks required participants to watch a tutorial video on introductory programming and to attend to a simple maze game whilst wearing an electroencephalogram (EEG) device called the Emotiv EPOC. The EPOC’s proprietary software includes a system which tracks emotional stat...