Help or Hindrance: Blended approaches and student engagement

Project Description

This project will identify effective student learning strategies in a blended environment that enable teachers to give focussed pedagogical support designed to enhance learner outcomes. It will achieve this by developing a toolkit of engagement strategies and testing this toolkit in four organisations. This toolkit will be freely available to all tertiary organisations across New Zealand.

Project Team

• Dr Lynn Jeffery (Contact Project Leader), Massey University  
• John Milne, Massey University
• Andrew Higgins, AUT University
• Alison Holmes, University of Canterbury
• Keith Comer, University of Canterbury
• Gordon Suddaby, Massey University
• Dr Mark Laws, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi

Project Funding

$140,777 GST exc.

Key Dates

• Project commence: early 2010 
• Expected project completion: late 2011

Project Outputs

Presentation about the project at the Ako Aotearoa Research in Progress Colloquium 2010 (clink on ppt image to left)

  Draft annotated bibliography