Subject: Re: [IFETS-DISCUSS] IFETS-DISCUSSION Digest - 28 May 2003 to 29 May 2003 (#2003-3 2)
From: P.Twining (P.Twining@OPEN.AC.UK)
Date: Tue 03 Jun 2003 - 00:50:52 MEST
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:50:52 +1200 From: "P.Twining" <P.Twining@OPEN.AC.UK> Subject: Re: [IFETS-DISCUSS] IFETS-DISCUSSION Digest - 28 May 2003 to 29 May 2003 (#2003-3 2)
Michael Verhaart says in a 5-27-03 post:
It is often quoted in papers of on-line learning that "Students do not
use/contribute to on-line systems unless there is an assessment component".
Does anyone know of * research that has been done in this area? Or *
research into what factors encourage students to participate.
Some work has been done in this area at the Open University (UK). Check out
the Knowledge Network generally (http://kn.open.ac.uk/public) - searching
for assessment will bring up over 100 documents most of which are about CMC
and assessment and many of which are 'research based', or look at
http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/document.cfm?documentid=1268 which looks at the
issue of student participation and assessment in the context of a
'constructivist' (if you must) distance education course.
Not with standing my comments in the paper referred to above (the
documentid=1268 url) I agree with Dave Bremer when he said:
Those of us who are merely listening are indeed participants in a
discussion.
Peter T
PS Going back to lurking for now. ;o)
PPS Actually, like "many" lurkers I post quite a lot of emails to individual
people who have posted in this list - you just don't see them cos I tend not
to reply to the list as a whole.
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