Students engagement in e-learning environments : a comprehensive model : measurement, evaluation, and recommendations

Abstract EN

Online learning has become at the core of educationsystems, especiallyafter the Corona pandemic.

Noteworthy, LMS (Learning Management System) records all students' actions, whichisdifficult in traditionaleducationsystems, which, if properlyanalyzed, can give a clearpicture of the student'slearningbehavior.

This studyfocuses on measuring and analyzingstudents' engagement with courses, thusprovidingstudents, teachers, and academicadvisorswithrecommendations for improvement.

Research has shownthat the more students' engagement thehigher the success rate.

Therefore, weconsiderhigh engagement as a key successindicatorin aneducation system.

This researchidentifiedthe system-interaction attributesinfluencing the student's engagementwith a course.

It integratesthoseattributesinto a model for measuring and evaluating the degree of student's engagement—the LAST-CASE Model.

The LAST-CASE model isdesignedto measure the different engagement dimensions, such as cognitive, social, academic, and affective dimensions as recommended by the Community of Inquiry (CoI).

This article describes how to measuresuchattributesusingboth the LMS log and the xAPImethod.

In addition, we shed lights on how to assess the degree of “engagement” on differentthemes, e.

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, for a student in a course, for a studentacross all courses in a particularfield, for differentstudents in different classes for the same course but taught by differentteachers, etc.