¿Estamos dispuestos a investigar en docencia?El 'student engagement' como marco del "Scholarship in Teaching and Learning" en la Universidad Española

Abstract

The latest calls for Educational Innovation Projects and programmes Evaluation of the Educational Activity of several Spanish universities, are encouraging the formation of research groups in educational innovation to work and exercising a function of national or European leadership in research in this subject. Internationally, research in scholarship in teaching and learning in higher education is focused on the student and, more specifically, on how they can meet the challenge of participation, motivation and their engagement. This phenomenon is set within a worldwide movement with deep international implications, the so called Student Engagement, which is still latent on the Spanish university panorama. However, in this context there is growing awareness of its importance in the successful outcomes of student learning and the assessments of university centers. The main contribution of this work consists of analysis of the content of papers given at IATED congresses in the last five years. These can be considered as the current state of the issue or the evolution of the topic at the leading congresses on education innovation which has had an impact in the national and international scene.