Getting students engaged

Authors

  • Phil Race Higher Education Consultant

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.v0i3.93

Keywords:

engagement, making learning happen,

Abstract

We live and work in challenging times. Now that it seems certain (post Browne, 2010) that the fees students pay for their higher education experience will double (or worse), we can't be surprised that the emphasis on 'the student experience' of higher education will intensify. Whether students are saddling themselves with ever-increasing amounts of debt to afford that higher education experience, or whether it is parents who foot the bill, the spotlight continues to focus ever more sharply on student satisfaction, alongside all available measures of the quality of student engagement in higher education. We already have league tables in which the reflection of the student experience as gained from the National Student Survey features prominently. And with diminishing budgets for teaching, class sizes are likely to continue to grow - in those disciplines where higher education survives least scathed. So how can we meet the challenge of 'getting students engaged'?

Author Biography

Phil Race, Higher Education Consultant

I lead highly interactive workshops (and keynotes) on assessment, learning and teaching in higher and further education. I publish widely on such things, and various details of my work can be found on this website, including several downloads containing extracts from my recent books. My passion is about 'making learning happen', in an approachable way, without recourse to jargon, acronyms or elitism. People say I have the knack of making complex things understandable!

I started as a scientist, but gradually became an educational developer. I completely failed to take early retirement in 1995, and have been even busier ever since. I now spend most of my time running workshops for teaching staff in universities and colleges across the UK and beyond.

My work was recognised in 2007 by the Higher Education Academy awarding me a National Teaching Fellowship, and the status of 'Senior Fellow' of the Academy.

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Published

03-04-2011

How to Cite

Race, P. (2011) “Getting students engaged”, Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, (3). doi: 10.47408/jldhe.v0i3.93.

Issue

No. 3 (2011)

Section

Opinion Pieces

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