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E-Assessment by Design: Using Multiple-Choice Tests to Good Effect
David Nicol
Journal of Further and Higher Education Vol. 31, No. 1 (February 2007) pp. 53–64
Over the last decade, larger student numbers, reduced resources and increasing use of new technologies have led to the increased use of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) as a method of assessment in higher education courses. This paper identifies...
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Managing Investment in Teaching and Learning Technologies
Michael Coen; David Nicol
Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education Vol. 11, No. 1 (January 2007) pp. 25–28
Information and communications technologies are radically changing the way that teaching and learning activities are organised and delivered within higher education (HE) institutions. A wide range of technologies is being deployed in quite complex...
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The Social Dimensions of Online Learning
David J. Nicol; Ian Minty; Christine Sinclair
Innovations in Education and Teaching International Vol. 40, No. 3 (2003) pp. 270–80
Explores the social dimensions of online learning, including ways in which learners interact and communicate with other learners and tutors using electronic communication networks based on experiences in a Masters program in Scotland. Concludes that ...
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Rethinking Feedback Practices in Higher Education: A Peer Review Perspective
David Nicol; Avril Thomson; Caroline Breslin
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education Vol. 39, No. 1 (2014) pp. 102–122
Peer review is a reciprocal process whereby students produce feedback reviews on the work of peers and receive feedback reviews from peers on their own work. Prior research has primarily examined the learning benefits that result from the receipt of ...
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Using a shared workspace and wireless laptops to improve collaborative project learning in an engineering design class
David J. Nicol; Iain A. MacLeod
Computers & Education Vol. 44, No. 4 (May 2005) pp. 459–475
Two different technologies, groupware (a shared workspace) and shared wireless laptop computers, were implemented in a project design class in a civil engineering course. The research interest was in the way these technologies supported resource...
Language: English
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Peer Instruction versus Class-Wide Discussion in Large Classes: A Comparison of Two Interaction Methods in the Wired Classroom
David J. Nicol; James T. Boyle
Studies in Higher Education Vol. 28, No. 4 (2003) pp. 457–73
Classroom communication system (CCS) technology makes it easier to give students immediate feedback on concept tests and to manage peer and class discussions in large classes. This study compared the effects of two different CCS discussion sequences ...
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Students’ use of technologies to support formal and informal learning
Anoush Margaryan; David Nicol; Allison Littlejohn; Kathryn Trinder
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 4257–4266
This paper outlines a study investigating the educational potential of emergent social technologies and current practices of students and academics of higher education institutions in using these technologies to support learning in both formal and...
Topics: Educational Technology, Social Studies, Students
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The On-Line Study of Sentence Comprehension: An Examination of Dual Task Paradigms
Janet Nicol; David Swinney; Tracy Love; Lea Hald
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Vol. 35, No. 3 (May 2006) pp. 215–231
This paper presents three studies which examine the susceptibility of sentence comprehension to intrusion by extra-sentential probe words in two on-line dual-task techniques commonly used to study sentence processing: the cross-modal lexical priming ...