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HERDSA Special Interest Group: Online Engagement in Higher Education
HERDSA Online Engagement in Higher Education Special Interest Group is focused on the phenomenon of online higher education student engagement, and the aspects that both hinder and foster this engagement. This may include, but not limited to; student online engagement, pedagogical implications of online engagement, roles related to the facilitation and designing of learning for online engagement, frameworks that inform online engagement; non-engagement, assessment design for engagement, teacher presence, student motivation, synchronous and asynchronous learning activities that foster student engagement and learning, the use of course learning analytics and nudging to enhance or track engagement, barriers and enablers of engagement, as well as the affordances of education technology as a means of fostering online student engagement.
SIG co-chairs:
Dr Alice Brown (Senior Lecturer, Early Childhood Education)
University of Southern Queensland
Associate Professor Jay Cohen
The University of Adelaide (Academic Director - Online Transmission)
Education Transformation, Division of Academic and Student Engagement