Quotes from Elizabeth F. Barkley

Student engagement is the product of motivation and active learning. It is a product rather than a sum because it will not occur if either element is missing.

Although the terms teaching and learning are typically paired, those of us who teach know that students don't always learn. When I complained about this early in my teaching career, a colleagues chided me: "Saying 'I thaught the students something, they just didn't learn it' is akin to saying 'I sold them the car, they just didn't but it'".

many educators today recognize that the body, heart, and mind are all involved in learning.

The focus of the conversation varies, largely because higher education today is astonishingly diverse.

Whether the class is large or small, lecture or seminar, onsite or online, it can be a challenge to get students to engage. Whether we are simply attempting to get students to show up or take out their ear buds, or alternately, trying to challenge students to use higher-order thinking, we are all facing the same question: