Students Co-Creating Course Content and

Evaluating Their Own Learning

Michael PaskeviciusLearning Technologies Application Developer

Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning

What have you created that you are most proud of?

The Disposable Assignment

What if we changed these “disposable assignments” into activities which actually added value to the world? Then students and faculty might feel different about the time and effort they invested in them. I have seen time and again that they do feel different about the efforts they make under these circumstances.

These are assignments that students complain about doing and faculty complain about grading. They’re assignments that add no value to the world – after a student spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the student throws it away.

(Wiley, 2013)

Making use of the devices at hand

Basics: Docs and Collaborative Docs

Powerpoint is actually a very easy, accessible, and powerful tool for creating graphics, mixing text, and of course creating presentations

● Using PowerPoint as a design tool

Google Suite (docs, sheets, slides, drawings) is a great option for building collaborative works

● Adding collaborative Google Documents in your VIULearn Course

#MakeSlidesFunAgain

Web based tools to support personalization

Bower’s (2016) typology of Web 2.0 collaborative technologies

http://bit.ly/VIUWebTools

How might you engage students with using these tools in your context?

Student projects and ePortfolios

http://studentblogs.viu.ca/erringtontkd http://studentblogs.viu.ca/knyvan

Biology 325 • Collective scholarly and reflective writing initiative • Students tasked with creating two articles on a local bird

species of their choice• Peer review emerged as students commented on each

other's work

http://wordpress.viu.ca/biol325

Collective reflection

• CSCW 586 @ UVic• In a single term course we produced

• 364 Reflective blog posts• 1,020 Comments by peers

• Blogs and comments on readings were worth 35% of the course grade

https://cscwuvic2015.wordpress.com

What are the potential benefits and challenges to students co-creating course content?

Sounds good, but how do we implement such a thing?

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References Bower, M. (2016). Deriving a Typology of Web 2.0 Learning Technologies. British Journal of Educational Technology, 47(4), 763–777. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12344

FitzGerald, E., Kucirkova, N., Jones, A., Cross, S., Ferguson, R., Herodotou, C., … Scanlon, E. (2017). Dimensions of Personalisation in Technology-Enhanced Learning: A Framework and Implications for Design. British Journal of Educational Technology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12534

Hendricks, C. (2015). Non-Disposable Assignments in Intro To Philosophy. You're The Teacher: Teaching & Learning, and SoTL, in Philosophy, August 18, 2015. http://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks/2015/08/18/non-disposable-assignments-intro-philosophy /

Wiley, D. (2013). What is Open Pedagogy? Iterating Toward Openness Blog, October 21, 2013. http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2975

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