Assessment of Collaboration in Online Courses

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Assessment of Collaborationin Online Courses
- PhD Student - PhD Student - PhD Adviser
AulaNet Coordinator - AulaNet Coordinator

• Mariano Pimentel
• Marco Aurélio Gerosa
• Hugo Fuks
• Carlos José Pereira de Lucena

CSCL Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
2005Taiwan, May-June, 2005
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Agenda

• AulaNet
• ITAE course and its Assessment Strategies
• Participation Assessment
• Competence Assessment
• Collaborative Assessment
• Conclusion

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AulaNet
Research Project

• Developed by the Software Engineering Lab of
  PUC-Rio since 1997
• Freeware - Portuguese, English, Spanish -
  http//www.eduweb.com.br

AulaNet Services
AulaNet Snapshots
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ITAE course and its Assessment Strategies
Research Context

• ITAE Information Technology Applied to Education
• Real environment for experiments related to
  AulaNet
• Subject taught at the Computer Science Department
  of PUC-Rio
• Online since 1998.2 through AulaNet (13rd
  edition)
• Course Activities
• 1st part Learners read and discuss the courses
  topics
• 2nd part Groups of learners develop a new course
  content
• Group of learners develop a content prototype
• Collaborative assessment of the prototypes
• Development of the contents final version
• Collaborative assessment of the final version

Assessment Strategies
Participation Assessment
Competence Assessment
Collaborative Assessment
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Participation Assessment
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Competence Assessment
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Colaborative Assessment
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Conclusion
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Assessment of Collaborationin Online Courses
AulaNet ITAE Course and its Assessment
Strategies Participation Assessment Competence
Assessment Collaborative Assessment
Mariano Pimentel, Hugo Fuks, Carlos José Pereira
de Lucena mariano, hugo, lucena_at_inf.puc-rio.br
http//groupware.les.inf.puc-rio.br