Student Engagement and Blended Learning: Making the Assessment Connection

Abstract

There is an increased focus on student engagement and blended approaches to learning in higher education. This article demonstrates how collaborative learning applications and a blended approach to learning can be used to design and support assessment activities that increase levels of student engagement with course concepts, their peers, faculty and external experts, leading to increased student success and satisfaction.

Keywords

• student engagement
• collaborative learning applications
• blended learning
• assessment