AWESOME Dissertation
January 2008 - Ongoing(Contact: Dr Rebecca O'Rourke)
Funded By: JISC - Emerge
Other project members:
Dr Aisha Walker
Dr Vania Dimitrova - School of Computing
Dr Lydia Lau - School of Computing
Ms Kathrin Kaufhold
Sirisha Bajanki - School of Computing
Academic Writing in Electronic Social Online Mediated Environments (AWESOME)
This project aims to develop, deploy in real settings and disseminate a personalised social virtual environment to support dissertation writing (AWESOME-Dissertation) based on sound pedagogical models, using authentic examples, and following Web 2.0. tenets, namely collective intelligence and active engagement of users in creating and sharing content. Our main project website is at http://elgg.jiscemerge.org.uk/awesome/. The poster that we presented at ALT-C 2008 is available on our main project website.
Project partners:
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (coordinator) School of Education & Lifelong Learning Institute; School of Computing; Staff Support and Development Unit
UNIVERSITY OF COVENTRY Centre for Academic Writing
UNIVERSITY OF BANGOR School of Lifelong Learning
This project last updated by Aisha Walker on 15th October 2008.