Increasing student engagement and retention using classroom technologies : classroom response systems and mediated discourse technologies / edited by Charles Wankel, Patrick Blessinger ; in collaboration with Jurate Stanaityte, Neil Washington.

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

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

pt. 1. Adoption of classroom response systems and mediated discourse technologies -- Creative approaches in higher education : an introduction to using classroom-mediated discourse technologies / Patrick Blessinger and Charles Wankel -- Enhancing learning and teaching using electronic voting systems : the development of a framework for an institutional approach for their introduction / Amanda Jefferies, Marija Cubric and Mark Russell -- Using the Phoebe pedagogic planner to enhance student learning and engagement in undergraduate psychology courses / Mark J. Hager ... [and 3 others] -- Where technologies collide : a technology integration model / Christa L. Wilkin ... [and 3 others] -- part II. Application of classroom response systems and mediated discourse technologies -- The networked faculty and student engagement : the case of microblogging to support participation in a human resources management postgraduate course / Antonella Esposito -- Enhanced class replay : will this turn into better learning? / Ferdinando Pennarola and Leonardo Caporarello -- Bringing the world into our classrooms : the benefits of engaging students in an international business simulation / Tine Köhler ... [and 3 others] -- Mediated discourse in higher ed classrooms using text messaging / Binod Sundararajan, Lorn Sheehan and Sarah Gilbert -- Catalyzing learner engagement using cutting-edge classroom response systems in higher education / Julie Schell, Brian Lukoff and Eric Mazur -- Creating technology rich learning environments for the classroom / Robert Garrick ... [and 3 others] -- Learning tool or distraction : student responses to the use of iOS devices / Lauren Miller Griffith and Brian A. Roberts.

Examines new research on how classroom response systems are being used in higher education to increase learner engagement in an age of increasing globalization and diversity. --Based on publisher description.