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Designing online role plays with a focus on story development to support engagement and critical learning for higher education students Dracup, Mary 2012, Designing online role plays with a focus on story development to support engagement and critical learning for higher education students, Journal of learning design, vol. 5, no. 2, Special issue : The borderless classroom, pp. 12-24. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads dracup-designingonline-2012.pdf Published version application/pdf 550.95KB 96 Title Designing online role plays with a focus on story development to support engagement and critical learning for higher education students Author(s) Dracup, Mary Journal name Journal of learning design Volume number 5 Issue number 2 Season Special issue : The borderless classroom Start page 12 End page 24 Total pages 13 Publisher Queensland University of Technology Place of publication Brisbane, Qld. Publication date 2012-09-19 ISSN 1832-8342 Keyword(s) narrative role play online drama critical literacy higher education Summary Online role plays, as they are designed for use in higher education in Australia and internationally, are active and authentic learning activities (Wills, Leigh & Ip, 2011). In online role plays, students take a character role in developing a story that serves as a metaphor for real-life experience in order to develop a potentially wide range of subject-related and generic learning outcomes. The characteristics of these stories are rarely considered as factors in the design―and success―of these activities. The unspoken cultural assumptions, norms and rules in the stories that impact on the meanings students make from their experiences are also rarely scrutinised in the online role play literature. This paper presents findings from a case study of an asynchronous text-based online role play involving politics and journalism students from three Australian universities. The findings highlight the centrality of students’ collaborative story-building activity to their engagement and learning, including their development of critical perspectives. The study underlines the importance of certain aspects of the role play's design to support students' story-building activity. Notes Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner. Language eng Field of Research 130306 Educational Technology and Computing Socio Economic Objective 939902 Education and Training Theory and Methodology HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2012, Queensland University of Technology Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30048449 Document type: Journal Article Collections: School of Education Higher Education Research Group Open Access Collection   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 21 Sep 2012, 09:49:46 EST Fri, 21 Sep 2012, 09:59:07 EST Fri, 21 Sep 2012, 14:39:21 EST Thu, 04 Oct 2012, 10:59:18 EST Thu, 04 Oct 2012, 11:02:41 EST Thu, 04 Oct 2012, 11:06:23 EST Thu, 04 Oct 2012, 11:10:05 EST Filtered Full Access Statistics: 130 Abstract Views, 98 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 21 Sep 2012, 09:49:29 EST by Mary Dracup

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