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Engagement and learning through social software in finance : a retrospective on the Trading Room experience

Jain, Ameeta, Thomson, Dianne, Farley, Alan and Mulready, Pamela 2012, Engagement and learning through social software in finance : a retrospective on the Trading Room experience, Assessment and evaluation in higher education, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 701-718.

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Title Engagement and learning through social software in finance : a retrospective on the Trading Room experience
Formatted title Engagement and learning through social software in finance : a retrospective on the Trading Room experience
Author(s) Jain, Ameeta
Thomson, Dianne
Farley, Alan
Mulready, Pamela
Journal name Assessment and evaluation in higher education
Volume number 37
Issue number 6
Start page 701
End page 718
Total pages 18
Publisher Routledge
Place of publication Oxon, England
Publication date 2012-09
ISSN 0260-2938
Keyword(s) social software
student engagement and learning
blogs
online learning
Summary The introduction of a social software blog space called the Trading Room in an undergraduate finance unit generated a great deal of activity to support student learning. A subsequent evaluation of this innovation, viewed through the lens of Activity Theory, demonstrated that students perceived high value in the opportunity it provided for them to reaffirm theories, obtain individualised feedback and benchmark their work against others. While assessment is generally seen as the carrot and the stick of learning; students in the study reported that they would still participate in reading and posting to the Trading Room even if there was no assessment requirement. Students did not see any value in the environment as a purely social space, reporting that they saw it primarily as a professional educational community. It would appear that just as there are different communities in the real world social space, there are also different types of communities in the online space.
Language eng
Field of Research 130203 Economics, Business and Management Curriculum and Pedagogy
130306 Educational Technology and Computing
Socio Economic Objective 930102 Learner and Learning Processes
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2012, Taylor & Francis
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30048899

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