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Mature students have:
- Equal levels of satisfaction
- Deeper learning strategies
- more committed / motivated
- Different pattern of interaction (less interaction with other students)
- Better able to manage distance (have the life skills and time-management skills
- Experience a lot of role and financial pressure, alienation and anxiety
- Lack of skills (don't necessarily have the up to date skills required...yet another thing to learn in the first year)
- Overload of first year
- Knowledge conflict
The definition of student engagement for this study comes from the OSSIE: "The time and energy students invest in educationally purposeful activities, and the effort institutions devote to effective engagement".
===> The scales of engagement include academic challenge, work integrated learning, active learning, enriching education experiences, and staff and student interactions. <===
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Via Ana Cristina Pratas
