Full Description
This book outlines a range of innovative methods to gather student feedback, and explores the complex relation between student engagement, student satisfaction, and student success. Drawing on results from a set of numerous case-studies carried out at a school of education, the book reports on a range of theoretically-informed teaching innovations, including focus groups, learning analytics data, collegial conversations and insights from student researchers, that have been designed to create respectful, student-centred, and engaging learning environments. In the current climate of ever-increasing pressure on delivering high student satisfaction rates, these results are invaluable for university students and teachers across the globe.
With its unique thematic focus on educational rapport and relationship-centred education, the book is an excellent reference point for staff with a commitment to the scholarship of learning and teaching. It will be of great interest to students, practitioners, teachers and policy makers in higher education.
Contents
Chapter 1. Student Engagement and Rapport in Higher Education: The Case for Relationship-Centred Pedagogies; Leonie Roawn & Peter Grootenboer.- Chapter 2. Student Engagement and Rapport in the Context of Blended Learning in Mathematics Education Courses: Challenges and Implications; Kevin Larkin.- Chapter 3. Establishing Online Communities of Practice: The Case of a Virtual Sports Coaching Community; Sue Whatman.- Chapter 4. Establishing and Maintaining Rapport in an Online, Higher Education Setting; Harry Kanasa.- Chapter 5. What I Really Want from this Course is...: Tailoring Learning to Meet Students' Needs, Using Pedagogies of Connection and Engagement; Sherilyn Lennon.- Chapter 6. No Hugs Required: University Student Perspectives on the Relationship Between Excellent Teaching and Educational Support; Leonie Rowan & Geraldine Townend.- Chapter 7. Building Rapport with University Students: Building Rapport among University Teachers; Peter Grootenboer & LeonieRowan.
