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Sunday, June 29, 2008
Online Learning in the Webiverse: How Do You Grade a Conversation? - Trent Batson, Campus Technology
Academics have long talked of the "academic conversation." Now, Web 2.0 has called our bluff. We live in the midst of a non-stop world conversation. But, are conversational skills (in writing) important and, if so, how do we teach them? In a real-life conversation last week, a friend told me about a colleague who based all grades this past semester on his student's conversation in Blackboard. The course itself was traditional, but the student's evidence of learning was entirely how well they conversed about the course's topics in the forums in the course management system. How, you might ask, do you evaluate written turns in an ongoing conversation?
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