When I was a boy, engaging properly required little effort.
"The best way to make sure you're engaging properly is to monitor, monitor and monitor," she advises.
Classes are too big in the state sector, but I got a sense on a visit that the teaching staff were engaging properly with the children – that was more important to me.
One was that, thereafter, I knew I'd always feel slightly adrift, hopeless sometimes, for not engaging properly in the world of money, as many of my friends, and just about everyone else, seemed so keen to do.
Moreover, workfare is exactly what Mandatory Work Activity amounts to: as IDS says, "it is true that we have a programme which can require claimants to undertake a short period of compulsory work if we do not believe they are engaging properly in the pursuit of employment".
Obviously the depth of learning you're going to achieve from watching a handful of video clips sporadically vs the concentrated learning of engaging properly with a full MOOC is not going to be on a par.
