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Facebook Pilot Program:Does Social Media Enhance Learningoutcomes & Communities?, Karen Miner-Romanoff, Erin Wehmeyer
Facebook Pilot Program:Does Social Media Enhance Learningoutcomes & Communities?, Karen Miner-Romanoff, Erin Wehmeyer
Scholarship Forum 2013
In the process of onboarding new adjuncts, the researchers wanted a way to create more integrated, social interactions between students and instructors. We initially decided to use a secret Facebook group for a single class, but as we read the research available and discussed our project, we decided to create a closed, Facebook group for the entire Criminal Justice Administration program – including students, alumni, faculty, advisory board members, and industry experts. Non-class materials will be posted on this site, questions will be posed, current events and videos will be posted, and criminal justice alumni, advisory board members, and adjunct …
Effective Feedback: The "Jewel" Of Student Learning And Success, Lewis Chongwony
Effective Feedback: The "Jewel" Of Student Learning And Success, Lewis Chongwony
Scholarship Forum 2013
While there is unanimity on the importance of effective feedback to promote student learning and success in both online and face-to-face environment, debate continues on how best to provide this feedback, especially in online settings where personal cues are scarce. Dr. Lewis Chongwony's paper posits that effective feedback does not happen by chance or in a vacuum. Deliberate creative effort must be employed in any learning environment to provide and continuously sustain effective feedback. Using face theory and transaction distance theory, this paper will highlight how “giving” rather than “attacking” student’s face, particularly in an online learning environment promote and …