Increasing student engagement and retention using online learning activities : wikis, blogs and webquests / edited by Charles Wankel, Patrick Blessinger ; in collaboration with Jurate Stanaityte, Neil Washington.

"Created in partnership with Higher Education Teaching and Learning."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

New directions in higher education: an introduction to using wikis, blogs, and webquests / Patrick Blessinger and Charles Wankel -- Cooperating or collaborating: design considerations of employing wikis to engage college-level students / Jane Strickland and Ying Xie -- Blogging all over the world: can blogs enhance student engagement by creating a community of practice around a course? / Tony Reeves and 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 and 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 and Alex Janes -- Using the wiki as an experiential learning tool to engage students in undergraduate and graduate university courses / Michael J.D. Sutton and 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 Columbian university / Raúl Alberto Mora, Juan Diego Martinez, Liliana Alzate-Pérez, Raúl Gómez-Yepes and Laura Mildrey Zapata-Monsalve.