Challenges and opportunities in facilitating student engagement and empowerment: perspectives from information systems and education courses at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia
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Paper/Presentation Title | Challenges and opportunities in facilitating student engagement and empowerment: perspectives from information systems and education courses at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | |
Author | Hafeez-Baig, Abdul |
Editors | Montgomerie, Craig and Seale, Jane |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 2007 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA 2007) |
Number of Pages | 10 |
Year | 2007 |
Place of Publication | Chesapeake, VA, Canada |
ISBN | 1880094622 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://www.editlib.org/p/25421 |
Conference/Event | ED-MEDIA 2007: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2007 |
Event Details | ED-MEDIA 2007: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2007 Event Date 25 to end of 29 Jun 2007 Event Location Vancouver, Canada |
Abstract | [Abstract]: University qualifications are not only vehicles for training and skills development but also sites for 'value adding' and stimuli for critical reflection and fundamental questioning about the purposes of education. Viewed from this perspective, the facilitation of student engagement and empowerment can be seen as both a right and a responsibility on the part of student and university alike and as a process that benefits themselves as well as the communities to which they belong. Yet such facilitation is neither automatic nor easy. The increased diversity of student populations, the growing emphasis on multiple modes of delivery and differences across and within disciplines combine to create challenges and opportunities in fostering student engagement and empowerment. These challenges and opportunities must be identified, analysed and harnessed if the desired benefits of this engagement and empowerment are to be realised in practice. This paper illustrates this argument by analysing two courses taught by the authors at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. This |
Keywords | student engagement; student empowerment; facilitating |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390203. Sociology of education |
390303. Higher education | |
390409. Learning sciences | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Information Systems |
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