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Higher Education Student's Use Of Technologies For Assessment Within Personal Learning Environments (Ples), Lynette Lounsbury, Paula Mildenhall, David Bolton, Maria T. Northcote, Alan Anderson

Educational Foundations & Policy Studies Faculty Publications

Higher education students' use of technologies has been documented over the years but their specific use of technologies for assessment-related tasks has yet to be fully investigated. Researchers at two higher education institutions recently conducted a study which sought to discover the technologies most commonly used by students within their Personal Learning Environments (PLEs). A specific aim of the study was to determine which of these technologies the students used when they complete and submit assessment tasks such as assignments and examinations. Results from questionnaires, focus groups and mapping exercises are reported and the implications of the findings for developing …

What Offline And Online Technologies Do Higher Education Students Use To Complete Assessment Tasks?, Lynette Lounsbury, David Bolton, Paula Mildenhall, Maria T. Northcote

Educational Foundations & Policy Studies Faculty Publications

A Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is a system, usually self-constructed, that enables learners to manage their own learning and may include tools, services, online resources and communities. The aim of the project: to determine which technologies students use when they prepare, complete and submit assessment tasks such as assignments and examinations.

The participants (n=39): 24 students from Edith Cowan University in WA and 15 students from Avondale in NSW. All students were undergraduate, on-campus students from Education and Arts courses, mainly female, most were aged between 20-24 years.

Previous research has defined PLEs (Dabbagh & Kitsantas, (2012), especially in social …