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Cases: Engineering Migration
- Stuart Palmer
Keywords
Automated online assessment; online journals; learning management
systems; assignment management
Teams collaborate online to form groups and complete assessable
tasks.
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Dr Stuart Palmer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of
Engineering and Technology in the Faculty of Science and Technology at
Deakin University. Based in Waurn Ponds, Geelong, Stuart has a wealth
of experience in using technology in his teaching and while his project
focussed on migrating and adapting material into Deakin Studies Online
(DSO) (especially in terms of automated assessment and online
journals) this case study can be seen as equally interesting as a perspective
on technology in education over time and developments towards the modern,
courseware management driven systems in place today. He introduces his
project briefly here  and talks over his experiences and that of
Deakin’s here .
Following
this, Stuart expands on his experiences moving from the ‘First
Class’ environment and adopting the new courseware management system
within DSO .
Stuart moved course notes, assessment tasks , resources and
the structure of the course through this process,
building up his own experience and feeding it into the process required
across his school. His experience reflects the importance of establishing
exemplars and approaching this kind of transition with a fairly systematic
and accepting (that is, not having a nervous breakdown when all the assignments
go missing) approach.
Stuart then shares a significant experience regarding reliability which
may sound familiar to anybody who’s experienced some hiccoughs
in the launch of a new courseware management system. The ‘mixed
bag’ experience of this kind of approach is a significant theme
throughout his online journey.
Finally, Stuart reflects on the experience of moving to DSO as both
a teacher and an Online Teaching and Learning Fellow . Issues
such
as the provision of information for users, especially concerning system
peculiarities, rise to the fore together with the integration of existing
resources, adding to the array of assessment tasks and effective management
of assignments.
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:: resources ::
Stuart Palmer case in Assessing
Learning in Australian Universities Ideas, strategies and resources
for quality in student assessment.
Palmer, S. (2003), Evaluation
of on-line technology to support students studying engineering
management in summer semester, Summer
Academe, v4, pp. 59-70.
Palmer, S. (2002), A
Review of Strategic Issues in Using the Internet for Teaching
and Learning, Australasian Journal of Engineering
Education, 2002, on-line, pp. 1-11.
Palmer, S. and Bray, S. (2001), Longitudinal
study of computer usage in flexible engineering education, Australian
Journal of
Educational Technology, v17, n3, pp 313-329.
Palmer, S. and Tulloch, W. (2001), The
Evolution of On-line Teaching and Learning in Engineering at
Deakin University, Journal of Computing
in Higher Education, v13, n1, pp 91-109. The School's on-line
story up to the introduction of DSO.
Palmer, S. (2001), Engineering
flexible teaching and learning in engineering education, European
Journal of Engineering Education,
v26, n1, pp 1-13.
Palmer, S. (2001), On-
and off-campus engineering student usage of a computer conferencing
system, Journal of Research
on Computing in Education,
v33, n3, pp. 280-298.
Spratt, C., Palmer, S. and Coldwell, J. (2000), Using technologies
in teaching: an initiative in academic staff development, Educational
Technology and Society, v3, n3, pp 455-461.
Palmer, S. (2000), On-
and off-campus computer usage in engineering education, Computers & Education, v34, n2, pp 141-154.
Palmer, S. (1998), Current
Issues and Limitations in using the Internet for Teaching and
Learning, Australian Educational Computing,
v13 n1, pp 12-17.
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