First year university student engagement using digital curation and career goal setting

Amy Antonio; David Tuffley

doi:10.3402/rlt.v23.28337

First year university student engagement using digital curation and career goal setting

Amy Antonio Australian Digital Futures Institute, University of Southern Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
David Tuffley School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v23.28337

Keywords: engagement, goal setting, digital curation, higher education

Abstract

The engagement of students is one of the most pressing issues facing higher education in the 21st century. Around the world, participation rates in tertiary education are on the rise and one of the key challenges facing educators is finding ways to engage these students. We present the results of a project that assesses the impact of an engagement strategy in which a cohort of students entering their first year of university (1) establish and maintain a clear goal of their ideal future career and (2) make use of a web-based digital curation tool to research and present their findings. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the strategy, which could arguably be applied to a broad range of disciplines given that the majority of students today are technologically literate.

Keywords: engagement; goal setting; digital curation; higher education

(Pulished: 20 October 2015)

Citation: Research in Learning Technology 2015, 23: 28337 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v23.28337

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2015-10-20

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Antonio A., & Tuffley D. (2015). First year university student engagement using digital curation and career goal setting. Research in Learning Technology, 23. https://doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v23.28337

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Vol. 23 (2015)

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