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Shaw, Jill and Woodthorpe, John
(2009).
URL: http://www.iiis.org/CDs2008/CD2009SCI/EISTA2009/Pa...
Abstract
This article reports an interview and questionnaire survey investigating students' participation in subject communities via fOUndit, a tool for sharing links to online resources. Harking back to Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the role of the Web as 'a tool for furthering serious research communications between scientific researchers' [1] this research investigates how students might use the Web to share online resources and support each other in an online subject community. The views of group of Level 1 Technology students were gathered on their use of fOUndit as part of integral course activities, focusing on their thoughts on whether the facility supported them as part of a community, and if they would continue using the facility. These issues regarding how students use such a facility and their views on identity and community are explored, followed by recommendations for further research.
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Not Set Not Set Centre for Open Learning of Mathematics, Science, Computing and Technology (COLMSCT), The Open University, - Keywords
- e-learning; Web-based resources; Subject communities; Social context; Assessment; Information literacy;
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Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications
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