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Levrai, Peter; Bolster, Averil – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2019
In English for academic purposes courses, group oral presentations are quite common but essay writing tends to be seen as an individual endeavour, albeit with scope for peer review. This article discusses action research reflecting on student perceptions of a framework to support students through a semester-long collaborative essay assignment in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Language of Instruction, Essays, Action Research
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Hills, Thomas T. – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2015
The recent growth in crowdsourcing technologies offers a new way of envisioning student involvement in the classroom. This article describes a participatory action research approach to combining crowdsourced content creation with the student as producer model, whereby students' interests are used to drive the identification and creation of…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Collaborative Writing, Student Participation, Participatory Research
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Matthiesen, Christina – Community Literacy Journal, 2014
During a series of writing workshops at a shelter for young homeless people in Copenhagen, I examined to what extent the literary practice of student-driven imitation with its emphasis on self-governance and a dialogical approach can engage marginalized learners in reading and writing. I found that student-driven imitation had the potential to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Workshops, Homeless People, Imitation
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Keane, Kjrsten; Russell, Miriam – Open Praxis, 2014
Though separated by geographical distance, a student with disabilities, his advisor, and his writing coach consorted in the Cloud using Google applications to achieve a writing goal. Our scenario demonstrates how emerging technologies can bridge transactional distance and "virtually" supplant face-to-face conferencing around a college…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Case Studies, Action Research, Disabilities
Benson, Robyn; Brack, Charlotte; Samarwickrema, Gayani – Research in Learning Technology, 2012
This paper reports on the use of action research in a case study involving two iterations of an online workshop implemented at two universities in late 2007 and early 2009 to prepare teaching staff for using wikis for student group work and assessment. Workshop participants were immersed in the experience of collaborating in a wiki as learners and…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Action Research, Workshops, Staff Development
Nunes, Miguel Baptista, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2013, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Prague, Czech Republic, July 23-26, 2013). The e-Learning 2013 conference aims to…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education