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(teach) Re: Best sites

by dk-5 :: Rate this Message:

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Thomas Robb wrote:

" At my school, we use Moodle with the English majors to view videos that
accompany their textbook, with fill-in-the-blank exercises that they can do
over and over until they get a decent score. We also have them read graded
readers and take online quizzes that simply assess whether they have read
their books. Many students actually look forward to these quizzes. We also
use Moodle as a resource area, to put schedules, copies of handouts, etc."
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I would like to ask Tom Robb and others who have experience with online
materials that are a required part of a course to what degree do you think
students do the work correctly and not copy the work of others or get a
friend to answer the questions?

Dave Kees



Re: (teach) Re: Best sites

by Tom Robb-2 :: Rate this Message:

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Dave asks:
>to what degree do you think
students do the work correctly and not copy the work of others or get a friend to answer the questions?
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Of course there is some of that, perhaps 10% of the students, but that
leaves 90% of the students who have benefited from the additional contact
time with the language.  My hunch, totally unprovable, is that there is
probably MORE cheating going on with written homework than with online
activities such as the ones we use.

Cheers,
  Tom