Motivating and engagaging students through technology

Gordon, Neil; Grey, Simon; Brayshaw, Mike

Abstract

© 2015 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. This chapter will consider what we mean by student engagement, and how students may be motivated through appropriate pedagogy - that is through teaching approaches and related assessment. We will focus in particular on the way that technology enhanced learning - and techniques that utilise Computer Science concepts and techniques - can be used to monitor and measure engagement, as well as how such technology and techniques can potentially be used to improve the motivation of students and thereby improve their engagement. As part of the background to this we will explore what we mean by engagement and motivation, with different approaches to both. This will be followed by an overview and then some description of how we may measure engagement through technology, considering aspects around Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics. Having established the approaches, we will then describe some examples of how we can utilise technology, to complement appropriate pedagogic methods, to enable approaches to learning that improve engagement, including extrinsic motivation through assessment, and intrinsic motivators by adopting and applying gamification techniques and utilising social learning.

Citation

Gordon, N., Grey, S., & Brayshaw, M. (2015). Motivating and engagaging students through technology. In J. Hawkins (Ed.), Student Engagement: Leadership Practices, Perspectives and Impact of Technology (25-43). Nova Science Publishers

• Publication Date: May 1, 2015
• Deposit Date: Apr 26, 2022
• Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
• Pages: 25-43
• Series Title: Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World
• Book Title: Student Engagement: Leadership Practices, Perspectives and Impact of Technology
• ISBN: 9781634823715 ; 9781634823883
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/519658
• Publisher URL: https://novapublishers.com/shop/student-engagement-leadership-practices-perspectives-and-impact-of-technology/