Given the demand for authentic personal interactions over social media, it is unclear how much firms should actively try and engage with consumers using social media. We investigate empirically what drives the degree of engagement that healthcare organizations generate by actively managing their social media presence. We find that active management of social media is more likely to generate inc...

Using data on upper-division students in the University of California system, we show that two distinct cultures of engagement exist on campus. The culture of engagement in the arts, humanities and social sciences focuses on interaction, participation, and interest in ideas. The culture of engagement in the natural sciences and engineering focuses on improvement of quantitative skills through c...

The present longitudinal study explored the development of personal well-being in university students over 4 years. Personal well-being was indexed by multiple indicators including life satisfaction, positive youth development qualities, and university engagement. A sample of 434 students enrolled in the new 4-year undergraduate program in one university in Hong Kong was successfully followed u...

the power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van dijk 1996). this potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. the major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backg...

The purpose of this study was to research the effect of the rubric on the level of learners’ cognitive engagement and to explore the effectiveness of Web-based concurrent discussions experienced by learners. The participants were 20 undergraduate students of D Women’s University and they were divided into six groups for concurrent discussions in Web-based environment. Three groups of 10 partici...

Supporting Black Male Community College Success: Determinants of Faculty–Student Engagement J. Luke Wood a & S. Mei-Yen Ireland b a Department of Administration , Rehabilitation and Post-Secondary Education, San Diego State University , San Diego , California , USA b Department of Higher Education and Student Affairs , The Ohio State University , Columbus , Ohio , USA Published online: 17 Dec 2...

New educational methods require new competences from university teachers. In a non-technical seminar with included SE aspects for bachelor computer science student’s self-determined learning and gamification could improve student’s engagement significantly. Both methods seem to be a good candidates for technical courses in software engineering, too. The article highlights the new role and compe...

B. Gajdzik, The Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Katowice, Poland In the theoretical part of the publication an overview of the defi nitions of employee engagement was conducted together with the analysis of the methods and techniques which infl uence the professional activity of the employees in the metallurgical enterprise. The practical part dis...

This study examined the utility of the Theory of Planned Behavior model, augmented by descriptive norms and justifications, for predicting self-reported research misconduct and questionable research practices in university students. A convenience sample of 205 research active Western Australian university students (47 male, 158 female, ages 18-53 years, M = 22, SD = 4.78) completed an online su...

statistics anxiety has a positive relationship with academic drop-out and deserves greater attention. this study examines a model explaining the impact of students’ achievement goals on their statistics anxiety through levels of their academic engagement. three hundred and fifteen undergraduate students (53 males and 262 females) who studied educational sciences and psychology in the state univ...