Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

carried out online in a lab, or usinglaptops. A “scavenger hunt” gets students to work in pairs to surf the Web for answers toquestions posed by the instructor. In another kind of exercise, students can be assigned to comeup with new examples, or exercises, for the text, and then submit to an online peer-reviewsystem, where their work is reviewed by others, and the best work selected to be presented tofuture classes. Another strategy is to have students prepare resources to share with the class.They post these on a wiki, and the lectures become class meetings with an agenda posted on thewiki. The instructor moderates the meeting, and a student takes the minutes, and posts them onthe Web. Peer assessment is used for all contributions. The paper