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Generational Computing Tastes: Tablet PCs in the Communicative Ecology of Multimedia Design Students
Marsha Berry; Margaret Hamilton
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 2537–2544
In this paper, we discuss the effects of introducing mobile computing via the use of Tablet PCs into the learning environment of multimedia students. We explain our aspirations for this group of students who mainly belong to Generation Y and our...
Topics: Students
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Technology Options for Assessment Purposes and Quality Graduate Outcomes
Margaret Hamilton; Sheila Howell
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 904–911
With greater student diversity and large numbers in classes, difficulties occur in ensuring quality across course deliveries at various campuses, and comparing standards set. Not only is this true for the delivery of content, or access to resources,...
Topics: Students, Assessment
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Evaluating the Quality of Interaction in Asynchronous Discussion Forums in Fully Online Courses
Dip Nandi; Margaret Hamilton; James Harland
Distance Education Vol. 33, No. 1 (2012) pp. 5–30
Fully online courses are becoming progressively more popular because of their "anytime anywhere" learning flexibility. One of the ways students interact with each other and with the instructors within fully online learning environments is via...
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Web 2.0 authorship: Issues of referencing and citation for academic integrity
Kathleen Gray; Celia Thompson; Rosemary Clerehan; Judithe Sheard; Margaret Hamilton
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 11, No. 2 (2008) pp. 112–118
Web 2.0 authoring forms such as wikis and blogs, social bookmarking, and audio and video podcasting pose a challenge to academic authorship traditions. This paper reviews the provisions made in major academic referencing and citation style guides...
Language: English
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Instructor Perspectives of Multiple-Choice Questions in Summative Assessment for Novice Programmers
Shuhaida Shuhidan; Margaret Hamilton; Daryl D'Souza
Computer Science Education Vol. 20, No. 3 (September 2010) pp. 229–259
Learning to program is known to be difficult for novices. High attrition and high failure rates in foundation-level programming courses undertaken at tertiary level in Computer Science programs, are commonly reported. A common approach to evaluating ...
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Transforming assessment in higher education: A participatory approach to the development of a good practice framework for assessing student learning through social web technologies
Jenny Waycott; Celia Thompson; Rosemary Clerehan; Judithe Sheard; Joan Richardson; Margaret Hamilton; Kathleen Gray
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2010 (2010) pp. 1040–1050
Social web technologies, such as blogs, wikis, social networking and photo/video sharing sites, are increasingly being used in innovative learning activities in higher education. While there has been much discussion about the pedagogical rationale...
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Worth It? Findings from a Study of How Academics Assess Students' Web 2.0 Activities
Kathleen Gray; Jenny Waycott; Rosemary Clerehan; Margaret Hamilton; Joan Richardson; Judithe Sheard; Celia Thompson
Research in Learning Technology Vol. 20, No. 1 (2012)
Educational commentators have offered many pedagogical rationales for using Web 2.0 to support learning in higher education, and academics are being encouraged to find ways for their students to use social web technologies. Questions arise as to the ...
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An Academic Integrity Approach to Learning and Assessment Design
Margaret Hamilton; Joan Richardson
Journal of Learning Design Vol. 2, No. 1 (2007) pp. 37–51
In this paper, we discuss the role of the educator in terms of designing a learning environment for the student which encourages the student to develop their own academic integrity. In such an environment, there is no need for the student to resort...
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Academic integrity compliance and education
Margaret Hamilton; Joan Richardson; Margaret Hamilton; Joan Richardson
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2008 (2008) pp. 382–388
In 2002, RMIT University trialled Turnitin (Barrie 1996) a text matching software package to assist in the identification of plagiarism. Turnitin enables access to databases of text stored digitally and provides a means of comparing student...
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Using Web 2.0 to teach Web 2.0: A case study in aligning teaching, learning and assessment with professional practice
John Terrell; Joan Richardson; Margaret Hamilton; Margaret Hamilton
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 27, No. 5 (Jan 01, 2011)
Web 2.0 technologies have transformed the way people in information industries engage with their clients, collaborate on projects, promote their services and gather community knowledge. In this paper, we describe the impact of industry adoption of...
Language: English
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Students as Web 2.0 authors: Implications for assessment design and conduct
Kathleen Gray; Celia Thompson; Judithe Sheard; Rosemary Clerehan; Margaret Hamilton; Margaret Hamilton
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 26, No. 1 (Jan 01, 2010)
Students now have at their disposal a range of Web 2.0 authoring forms such as audio and video podcasting, blogging, social bookmarking, social networking, virtual world activities and wiki writing. Many university educators are interested in...
Language: English
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Evaluating quality in online asynchronous interactions between students and discussion facilitators
Dip Nandi; Margaret Hamilton; Shanton Chang; Sandrine Balbo; Sandrine Balbo
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 28, No. 4 (Jan 01, 2012)
Online discussion forums have become an essential part of university courses, whether the course is conducted online, or face to face, or in mixed or blended mode. Discussion forums are considered to engage students better with the course content...
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Developing Creativity and Problem-Solving Skills of Engineering Students: A Comparison of Web- and Pen-and-Paper-Based Approaches
Andrew Valentine; Iouri Belski; Margaret Hamilton
European Journal of Engineering Education Vol. 42, No. 6 (2017) pp. 1309–1329
Problem-solving is a key engineering skill, yet is an area in which engineering graduates underperform. This paper investigates the potential of using web-based tools to teach students problem-solving techniques without the need to make use of class ...