Using a synchronous online learning environment to promote and enhance transactional engagement beyond the classroom

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to create a synchronous online learning community through the use of Blackboard Collaborate ! to promote and enhance transactional engagement outside the classroom. Design/methodology/approach – This paper employs a quantitative and qualitative approach where data were sourced from a third year finance unit across one semester using a survey instrument. SPSS v20 was used to perform basic descriptive...