Exploiting Online Interactivity To Enhance Assignment Development and Feedback in Distance Education.

Macdonald, Janet

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Publication Date: 2001

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Exploiting Online Interactivity To Enhance Assignment Development and Feedback in Distance Education.

Macdonald, Janet

Open Learning, v16 n2 p179-89 Jun 2001

Discussion of assessment in online distance education focuses on network-delivered model answers and peer review as additional formative feedback on assessment. Concentrates on the development of a critical approach to writing and the ability to communicate within a discipline in a course at the United Kingdom's Open University. (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Networks, Critical Thinking, Distance Education, Evaluation Methods, Feedback, Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, Interaction, Online Courses, Peer Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Writing (Composition)

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