Reassessing Disparities in Online Learner Student Engagement in Higher Education

Intelligent Student Engagement Management - Applying Business Intelligence in Higher Education

Advances in emerging ICT have enabled organisations to develop innovative ways to intelligently collect data that may not be possible before. However, this leads to the explosion of data and unprecedented challenges in making strategic and effective use of available data. This research-in-progress paper presents an action research focusing on applying business intelligence (BI) in a UK higher e...

Student Views of Effective Online Teaching in Higher Education

Creating Engaging Student to Student Engagement in an Online Class

Online classrooms present a challenge in offering student to student engagement. The traditional mean for this has been discussion threads, however levels of participation and quality of responses are frequent issues. Another issue, is the amount of time on the part of the instructor to review and grade discussion threads. This paper describes and simple and innovative way to use quizzes as pee...

Reassessing resource allocation strategies in higher education: methods for analysis

Outlines the imperative of higher education organizations to remain in the forefront of strategic planning thinking. They are the breeding ground for innovative approaches to competitive and co-operative advantage in the commercial world. Attention is drawn to models of higher education organization which have been matched by similar strategic paradigms in business. The growing popularity of su...

Enhancing success in higher education by measuring student engagement in South Africa

Improving student success and throughput rates are key challenges facing South African higher education. International research shows that a focus on student engagement can help to enhance student learning and other desired outcomes as well as the efficiency and effectiveness of higher education systems. The paper documents the psychometric properties of the South African Survey of Student Enga...