Learning online: What does digital academic engagement look like

Abstract

Student habits of engagement across hybrid learning models appears to be a critical and global challenge. Previous attempts to analyse student behaviour focus on survey data and student opinion. These are valuable tools and have allowed us to interrogate the trend of declining engagement and attendance in recent years. We will present our early observations on the patterns of digital and physical engagement for a first-year, undergraduate biosciences cohort and how these patterns relate to the attainment metrics for the same cohort. In previous studies students have ranked lecture capture as a highly desirable tool for accessibility and engagement. From our early observations it appears that in person and digital engagement trends seem to correlate and that lecture capture alone is not acting as a suitable alternative to in person lectures.