Strategies for promoting student engagement:

• enhance students' self-belief
• enable students to work autonomously, enjoy learning relationships with others, and feel they are competent to achieve their own objectives
• recognize that teaching and teachers are central to engagement
• create learning that is active, collaborative and fosters learning relationships
• create educational experiences for students that are challenging and enriching and that extend their academic abilities
• ensure that institutional cultures are welcoming to students from diverse backgrounds
• invest in a variety of support services
• adapt to changing student expectations
• enable students to become active citizens
• enable students to develop their social and cultural capital

To read the entire article, see:

Zepke, N., & Leach, L. (2010). Improving student engagement: Ten proposals for action. Active Learning in Higher Education, 11(3), 167-177.