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Forrest Hisey; Tingting Zhu; Yuhong He – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Lack of student engagement in online learning is reported as the major challenge contributing to poor academic performance and completion rates. When transforming an in-person undergraduate remote sensing course to online, this study implemented interactive storytelling lecture trailers (ISLTs) as a tool to effect changes in the realms of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Distance Education, Story Telling, Learner Engagement
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García-Aracil, Adela; Monteiro, Sílvia; Almeida, Leandro S. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2021
This study explores the factors that contribute to students' perceptions of their preparedness for transition from university to work, taking a multidimensional perspective on their academic experience. To that end, a questionnaire was designed and administered to students enrolled in the final year of their master's degree programme. Students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, College Graduates, Student Attitudes
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Ellis, Robert A.; Bliuc, Ana-Marie – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2019
As online learning technologies are becoming an integral part of the learning experience at university, the quality of student learning is increasingly shaped by their experience of using these new artefacts. In many cases, the research frameworks investigating the contribution of online learning technologies to quality outcomes are yet to have…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Learning Experience, Educational Quality, Cognitive Style
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Herrmann, Kim J. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2013
With an increasing awareness that many undergraduates are passive during teaching sessions, calls for instructional methods that allow students to become actively engaged have increased. Cooperative learning has long been popular at the primary and secondary level and, within recent years, higher education. However, empirical evidence of the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Learner Engagement, Intervention, Quasiexperimental Design