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

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

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...

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...