Students' engagement in Distance Learning: Creating a scenario with LMS and Social Network aggregation

Abstract

Already a part of our daily lives, Web 2.0 is becoming also a part of Education, as it evolves to accompany society, education is becoming more personal, and with a focus on knowledge, reflection, social connection and engagement, as to include both digital natives and immigrants [1]. According to Siemens [2] today's learning depends on connectivity among individuals and it tends to dissolve frontiers between formal and informal learning. This paper presents a study 1 , that aims to comprehend how an informal platform (such as Facebook) while complement of a formal platform (such as Moodle) can contribute to a greater engagement by the Higher Education level students', as well as to measure the impact these tools can have on the knowledge acquisition process. Embedded on the Higher Education context, the study is centred in the levels of the students' engagement and on the frequency and quality of their contributions in Forums, being its participants, lecturers and students of this level of education. Since it is objective of the study to understand how interaction and collaboration contribute to students' involvement in elearning hybrid contexts the adopted theoretical framework is the Activity Theory, and the methodological approach chosen is of a mixed nature, using Social Network Analysis tools (SNA).

Supporting students to succeed in open and distance learning in the Open University of Sri Lanka and Universitas Terbuka Indonesia

“…Engaging students in learning is important to ensure persistence and improves academic achievement (Everett, 2015). Research has been conducted on various aspects of engagement of open and distance students in learning and findings confirm the importance of engagement of students in learning to ensure success in learning (Senior et al , 2018; Messias et al , 2015; Khe et al , 2018). There are questions to address as regards to what activities are designed and implemented to engage students in distance learning, how these activities are monitored and evaluated, and how distance students take advantage of learning engagement activities.…”

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“…A importância de estudar o engajamento, está diretamente relacionada com o estudante ao longo do curso, dado que, detectar o engajamento do aluno é uma chave importante para melhorar um sistema de e-learning [Altuwairqi et al 2018]. Ao saber o nível de engajamento, a qualidade da interação e colaboração, pode ajudar a definir estratégias para reduzir o número de desistências dos alunos em contextos e-Learning, a contribuir com maior qualidade de aprendizagem e o aumentar a satisfação dos alunos [Messias;Morgado and Barbas 2015].…”

“…Além disso, a falta de engajamento pode ser visto como uma interação pobre [Capuano et al 2013]. Devido a isso, ao identificar o nível de engajamento, de qualidade da interação e de colaboração, é possível definir estratégias para reduzir o número de desistências dos alunos, contribuir para a maior qualidade da aprendizagem e aumentar a satisfação [Messias;Morgado and Barbas 2015]. Diante disso, o objetivo deste estudo é utilizar técnicas de mineração de dados educacionais (EDM), em específico a análise de agrupamento com o intuito de encontrar diferentes perfis de engajamento em plataformas de sistema de gestão de aprendizado (LMS).…”

Using Free Online Form to Enhancing the Student Admission in Islamic Boarding School

“…Still, it is a situation that makes it difficult to carry out the marketing (Yıldırım et al, 2021). Current conditions require all parties to cooperate in rising and advancing in responding to challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic (Messias et al, 2015;Stiburek & Švec, 2017).…”