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Institutional Approaches to Engaging Students in Enhancing Their Experience

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Whilst most institutions regularly collect feedback from students on their learning experience, it is possible to engage students in far deeper approaches to enhancement. National surveys around the world ask students to provide feedback on their higher education experiences and by engaging them with improvement processes, institutions can demonstrate their commitment to improvement and enhancement. Student engagement with faculty in improving their curricula and learning environment through genuine partnership-work can lead to many benefits, including a new set of skills for students working on different projects and tasks. There are many different approaches to student engagement, and institutions are increasingly embedding specific initiatives in policies to ensure they occur consistently. However, there is still a place for more local partnership working with students, and in some institutions, it is these initiatives which lead to a broader institutional approach to enhancement through work with students. Four case studies illustrate this by describing differing approaches and examples, providing context to this chapter.

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    Liz Mossop

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Mossop, L., Lymn, J. (2021). Institutional Approaches to Engaging Students in Enhancing Their Experience. In: Shah, M., Richardson, J.T.E., Pabel, A., Oliver, B. (eds) Assessing and Enhancing Student Experience in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80889-1_4

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