Useful round up of empirical evidence of factors influencing student engagement

HEA report by trowler. This was commissioned to explore how influential student membership in course design, development and evaluation is to general student engagement. But there seems to be little or nothing out there. So this study has concentrated on empirical studies on general student engagement. Most of this stuff is from the US. trowler points out that concentrating on empirical means many interesting and useful studies were dropped. influencing factors 1. Staff-student contact
2. Active learning 3. Prompt feedback 4. Time on task
5. High expectations 6. Respect for diverse learning styles 7. Co-operation amongst students.

So what would be the opposite of a highly engaging course experience

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