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Engagement and learning through social software in finance : the trading room experience

conference contribution
posted on 2008-01-01, 00:00 authored by A Farley, Ameeta JainAmeeta Jain, Pamela Mulready, Dianne Thomson
The introduction of a social software blog space called “The Trading Room” in an undergraduate Finance unit for an assessment task generated a great deal of activity to support student learning. A subsequent evaluation of this pilot demonstrated that students perceived high value in the opportunity it provided for them to reaffirm theories, obtain individualized feedback and benchmark their work against others. Whilst assessment is generally seen as both the carrot and the stick of learning, and certification; students in the study reported that they would still participate in reading and posting to the “Trading Room” blog even if there was no assessment requirement! Additionally they did not see any value in the environment as a purely social space, reporting that they saw it primarily as a professional educational community. It would appear that just as there are different communities in the real world social space, there are also different types of communities in the online space. Context, structure and activity design, perhaps are the most important facets of online interaction for learning.

History

Event

Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. Conference (2008 : Melbourne, Vic.)

Publisher

ASCILITE

Location

Melbourne, Vic.

Place of publication

[Melbourne, Vic.]

Start date

2008-11-30

End date

2008-12-03

ISBN-13

9780980592702

Language

eng

Publication classification

E1 Full written paper - refereed

Editor/Contributor(s)

R Atkinson, C McBeath

Title of proceedings

ASCILITE 2008 : Hello! Where are you in the landscape of educational technology?

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