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Learning in Facebook: First Year Tertiary Student Reflections from 2008 to 2011
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McCarthy, Josh – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
This paper reflects on the use of Facebook as an online learning environment for first year design students from 2008 to 2011. Between 2008 and 2010 three student cohorts from the University of Adelaide engaged with their peers through forums hosted by Facebook, submitting work-in-progress imagery and critiquing peers' submissions. In 2011 the…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Social Networks, Educational Technology, Learning Strategies
Enhancing Feedback in Higher Education: Students' Attitudes towards Online and In-Class Formative Assessment Feedback Models
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McCarthy, Josh – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2017
This article explores the efficacy of formative assessment feedback models in higher education. Over 1 year and two courses, three feedback techniques were trialled: staff-to-student feedback in class, peer-to-peer feedback in class and peer-to-peer feedback online, via "the Café," an e-learning application hosted by…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Higher Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning
Global Learning Partnerships in "the Café": Peer Feedback as a Formative Assessment Tool for Animation Students
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McCarthy, Josh – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
This paper reports on a global learning partnership using "the Café: the collaborative application for education" as an e-learning environment within the Facebook framework, for first-year animation students at the University of South Australia (USA) in Australia and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. "The Café" has…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Partnerships in Education, Electronic Learning, Universities