Increasing student engagement and retention using online learning activities : wikis, blogs and webquests /

Includes index.<br>New directions in higher education : an introduction to using wikis, blogs, and webquests / Patrick Blessinger, Charles Wankel -- Cooperating or collaborating : design considerations of employing wikis to engage college-level students / Jane Strickland, Ying Xie -- Blogging all over the world : can blogs enhance student engagement by creating a community of practice around a course? / Tony Reeves, Phil Gomm -- Blogging is addictive! : a qualitative case study on the integration of blogs across a range of college level courses / Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas -- Writing radical lives : undergraduates publishing activist biographies on Wikipedia / Linda S. Watts -- Blogging clinical placement : harnessing technologies to increase off-campus engagement with healthcare learners / Stephanie Mckendry, Vic Boyd -- Using video and wiki technology to increase student engagement with learning in large international cohorts in UK higher education / Elisabeth Dunne, Jenny Wren, Alex Janes -- Using the wiki as an experiential learning tool to engage students in undergraduate and graduate university courses / Michael J.D. Sutton, Afsaneh Hazeri -- Academic literacies and blog writing in university classrooms / Cecile M. Badenhorst -- Consuming and constructing knowledge through WebQuests / Hope J. Hartman -- Rethinking WebQuests in second language teacher education : the case of one Colombian university / Raúl Alberto Mora ... [et al.].