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Assessment and Social Media for Globalised Students: MA Comparative Literature, UCL

Innovations in assessment: the student learning experience Dr Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen School of European Languages, Culture and Society. Assessment and Social Media for Globalised Students: MA Comparative Literature, UCL. 23 February 2012. Participants | Organisation.

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Assessment and Social Media for Globalised Students: MA Comparative Literature, UCL

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  1. Innovations in assessment: the student learning experience Dr Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen School of European Languages, Culture and Society Assessment and Social Media for Globalised Students: MA Comparative Literature, UCL 23 February 2012

  2. Participants | Organisation Memory and Literature in a Globalised Culture - MA module in Comparative Literature Participating institutions Spring 2009: Aarhus University and UCL Spring 2010: Aarhus University, University of Lisbon and UCL Tutors Dr. Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen (UCL) Dr. Susana Araújo & Dr. Ricardo Gil Soeiro (Lisbon) Prof. Svend Erik Larsen (Aarhus) IT-Support Michael Høyer Bæk (Aarhus) Desmond Walker (UCL Multimedia) Isabel Baía (Lisbon)

  3. Goals Photos of IWB and video feed from UCL Access Grid videoconferencing suite To apply the students’ non-professional it-competences in a professional context To combine face-to-face teaching with interactive digital learning To differentiate types of e-learning To differentiate international teaching and learning possibilities To find user friendly and cheap ways of utilising e-learning To make new forms of assessments integral to the learning experience (writing in/for social hyper-media)

  4. FAQ database with information about using the social media and technologies of the course List of participants (photo, bio, email, IM and Skype names) Virtual Learning Environment – UCL Moodle Collaborative glossary of terms and definitions All reading materials available online as pdf in the Digital book shelf Description of seminars with reading materials, ppt and tasks Link to live Moodle site

  5. Assessments: writing for social media The Portfolio Assessment consists of four individual written assignments for social media (30%) : • Forum discussion • Blog entries • Wiki project • Hypertext storyboard Research-led and problem-based learning resulting in an Academic Hypertext Essay (summative assessment, 70%): | 3000 words | 15 screens | multimodal | five links to ext. sources | The hypertext essay should show: • independent research skills • developed academic argumentation in hypertext • analytical/critical approach to the chosen topic In short, the hypertext essay should be more than a factual or descriptive ‘web site’ on a topic. It should contain academic analysis or critique.

  6. Student projects – collaborative blogs Students were divided into intercultural groups Create a blog with a common identity Collaborate using Skype Reflect on course readings and local examples Use visual examples and hyperlinks Present and reflect on blog entries in a following seminar

  7. Student hypertext essays – some examples 1. 2.

  8. Student hypertext essays – some examples 4. 3.

  9. Assessment and digital literacy • Assessment of individual and collective problem-based and research-led learning • Emphasis on process, dialogue, self-evaluation • Peer review and feedback central to seminar discussion • is central to meaning making & knowledge construction in local and global contexts • challenges the institutionalisation of knowledge • decreases the gap between student identity/personhood/cultural belonging and academic work • relating to digital media that are ubiquitous in and outside students’ coursework • helps students to work in a range of genres with a sound critical background • allows students’ who do not have English as a first language to succeed

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