Journal article
Making students' work visible on the social web: A blessing or a curse?
J Waycott, J Sheard, C Thompson, R Clerehan
Computers and Education | Published : 2013
Abstract
In this paper, we identify the implications for learning and teaching that emerge when students' assessable work is made visible to others through social media. We conducted a thematic analysis of transcripts from interviews with 20 Australian lecturers who described assessment tasks that required students to create and publish work using social technologies. The assignments varied, with different technologies used across a range of disciplines. Common to all examples, though, was the fact that students' work was made visible in some way, either shared with other students, or published on the web for an external audience. We examined lecturers' reflections on this visibility and found eviden..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the 20 interviewees from universities throughout Australia who were willing to share their experiences with the wider academic community. Support for this publication was provided by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Ltd., an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. The views expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect the views of the ALTC.