Atelier-D

First studio based course delivered online

This is a university that delivers an online studio based design course using SL, Ning and Elluminate. Are they the only ones?

 

https://deltawire.delta.ncsu.edu/faculty-spotlight/511/

 

 

Course Delivery Innovations (CDI) 5 ~ Year One

CDI 5 ~ Peer assessment in design
Led by Theo Zamenopoulos

Flickr was used to explore peer-to-peer assessment in design.  The need for a simpler interface did not deter from students engaging in peer assessment and interaction.  For a more detailed summary of this CDI please see the Atelier-D Website CDI 5.  

CDI 6: Peer- and Co-assesment in virtual design studio

This CDI is coordinated by Theodore Zamenopoulos. The following is a short description of its main objectives.

The view of learning as constructive, socially situated and reflective process is often associated with modes of student assessment that require the active participation of the learner. Over the last two decades there has been a growing literature on the link between learning and its mode of assessment. More specifically, there has been a particular interest on three modes of student assessment: peer to peer assessment, co-assessment and self-assessment. Peer assessment alludes to process where groups of individuals rate or evaluate their peers; co-assessment refers to a process where students together with their tutors participate in the evaluation process; and self-assessment refers to a process where learners evaluate themselves.

The development of new information and communication technologies - including applications for file sharing and collaborative content creation - have offered opportunities to enhance the process of collaborative learning and assessment. For that purpose, web based platforms have been explicitly developed for supporting peer, co- and self-assessment. A notable example is the open source peer-assessment software produced by the WebPA project (WebPA 8.0).

The CDI 6 will seek to investigate the use of peer, co- and self-assessment tools as part of collaborative design learning. Although the concept of virtual design studio has been explored for many years in areas such as product design and architecture, there is no study that explicitly focuses on delivering course innovations using peer, co- and self-assessment technologies.