Engaged Teaching will Foster Engaged Learning

Honors in Honduras: Engaged Learning in Action

Learning at a Distance: Engaged or Not?

Distance learning is the fastest growing segment of postsecondary education. Almost 3 million students took at least one online course in fall 2005, an increase of more than 800,000 over the previous year (Allen and Seaman 2006). At the same time, questions persist about the quality of online learning. In one recent study, about two-fifths of senior academic officers at U.S. degree-granting hig...

Integrating Problem-based Learning with Community-engaged Learning in Teaching Program Development and Implementation

Purpose: Problem-based learning (PBL) challenges students to learn and work in groups to seek solutions to real world problems. Connecting academic study with community-engaged learning (CEL) experience can deeper learning and thinking. This paper highlights the integration of PBL with CEL in the Implementation Course to engage graduate students in designing theory-based health promotion progra...

The Next Generation of E-Learning: Strategies for Media Rich Online Teaching and Engaged Learning

In a short span of three years, the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore witnessed significant growth in the adoption of e-learning. With the use of professors-friendly e-learning applications, NTU has been able to achieve critical mass buy-in by the academic staff when the e-learning take-up rate achieved 85% of the existing NTU course curriculum. As NTU moves on to celebrate th...

The Engaged Organization:

In this paper, we develop a model of the engaged organization, which shows how human capital can interact with social and green capital to influence organizational outcomes, particularly labor productivity. We argue that engaged organizations, that facilitate knowledge sharing and learning, employee motivation and commitment to the organization, can demonstrate increased labor productivity. We ...