Learner engagement: A metric for learning

Summary form only given. Personalisation agendas and strategies emphasised that the learning process should begin with the learner and from this evolved the promotion of the learner voice - the learner's ability to influence decisions affecting them. This has led to a varied implementation of personalised learning environments and provided a context for assessing their capabilities. Engagement in this context suggests that greater voice leads to increased participation and improved learning outcomes. Engagement can thus be presented as a view of the learner experience that can enrich the often reductionist language of performance, skills and competence. That is to say that the more one values the latter measures the more important it becomes to understand the former. Through exploration of the development of the personalised learning environment and appropriation of ideas from social media this talk will introduce engagement as a complex, multi-disciplinary metric for learning.