No consensus on what engagement is?
I am taking a break from #change11 to continue some work on a paper that's been in my mind for a while but I haven't had much time to work on just yet. The overall topic is a proposal for a foursquare type of service for academic environments. Location Based Services fall a bit short because GPS doesn't figure out what rooms you are in, so the article is going to propose a hybrid of Location Based Services (LBS) with Event Based Services (EBS) with a variety of outcomes including incidental learning opportunities, increase in school spirit and student engagement. The idea is still nascent, but I am getting there. As part of my literature review I came across Vicki Trowler's Student Engagement Literature Review (hey, what better place to get an overview of the field than a recent literature review?). It was an interesting read and it pointed me to some sources that I want to explore in greater depth. The thing that stood out to me was that there is no uni...