HERDSA 2010 program: Workshop one
Students' use of web 2.0 tools in higher education: Good practice in assessment and academic integrity
Kathleen Gray, Jenny Waycott and Celia Thompson
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Rosemary Clerehan and Judithe Sheard
Monash University, Australia
Margaret Hamilton and Joan Richardson
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia
Academic teaching staff are being encouraged to find ways for their students to use social web or web 2.0 tools, and many pedagogical rationales are advanced for these kinds of learning activities. However, the assessment of student web 2.0 activities can raise significant and complex challenges for academic integrity and other aspects of educational quality. Further, non-purposeful assessment of these activities may have a deleterious effect on student engagement, and difficulties with managing assessment of these activities may deter teaching innovation. This workshop offers the chance for participants to review and discuss current resources from "Web 2.0 Authoring Tools in Higher Education Learning and Teaching", a 2009-2010 Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) funded priority project. Workshop materials include findings from a national survey of academics who undertake medium or high stakes assessment of their students' web 2.0 activities, draft guidelines for good practice arising from a national roundtable on this topic, and documentation of and reflections on such practice in eighteen different university subject learning and teaching settings.