To wiki or to blog: Piloting social software technologies for assessment in a large first year information systems class

ACIS 2008 Proceedings - 19th Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 21-30

  Alam, Sultana Lubna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessment; Blog; Information Systems; Social software (web 2.0); Wiki

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT; ASSESSMENT TASKS; BLOG; CANBERRA; FIRST YEAR; HIGHER EDUCATION; INNOVATIVE APPROACHES; PILOT PROJECTS; SOCIAL SOFTWARE; SYSTEM ASSESSMENT; TEACHING AND LEARNING; TECHNOLOGY-BASED; WEB 2.0; WIKI;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TEACHING; TECHNOLOGY; WEB SERVICES;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84869126266     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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