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del Barrio-García, Salvador; Arquero, José L.; Romero-Frías, Esteban – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
As long as students use Web 2.0 tools extensively for social purposes, there is an opportunity to improve students' engagement in Higher Education by using these tools for academic purposes under a Personal Learning Environment approach (PLE 2.0). The success of these attempts depends upon the reactions and acceptance of users towards e-learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Experience, Electronic Learning, Satisfaction
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Yoo, Sun Joo; Huang, Wenhao David – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2013
As the number of online degree programs continues to grow among higher education institutions in the United States, engaging online adult learners to online degree programs is getting more difficult than before. Therefore, this study, situated in a land grant university, investigated the motivational factors that contribute to adult learners'…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Colleges, Learner Engagement, Adult Students
DeCuir, Alvin F., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Researchers have recognized that technology use is critical to students' engagement and the resulting increase in higher order thinking skills. However, educators are not using available technology to engage students' higher order thinking. Both the purpose of this study and the research question was to determine if teachers'…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Teacher Attitudes, Computer Attitudes, Thinking Skills