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, doi: 10.1080/02602938.2011.563280. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads 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 orcid.org/0000-0001-7912-0539 Thomson, Dianne orcid.org/0000-0002-8189-7854 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 1469-297X 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 DOI 10.1080/02602938.2011.563280 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 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Faculty of Business and Law School of Accounting, Economics and Finance Higher Education Research Group Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 04 Oct 2012, 14:10:56 EST Mon, 15 Oct 2012, 09:02:39 EST Mon, 15 Oct 2012, 09:04:00 EST Fri, 19 Oct 2012, 10:34:27 EST Fri, 19 Oct 2012, 10:35:26 EST Mon, 17 Jun 2013, 17:57:08 EST Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 15:59:22 EST Wed, 27 Aug 2014, 23:11:52 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 3 times in TR Web of Science Cited 3 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 658 Abstract Views, 3 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 04 Oct 2012, 14:10:39 EST by Aysun Alpyurek