Promoting Academic Reading with Web 2.0Emma ThompsonNick Bunyan

Context First semester, first year undergraduate module in e-business (30 students) Students not reading academic resources Students have a dependence on free sources of information (Google, Wikipedia!) Low module grades

First semester, first year undergraduate module in e-business (30 students)

Students not reading academic resources

Students have a dependence on free sources of information (Google, Wikipedia!)

Low module grades

What we did Seminar – Information Literacy Seminar – How to approach academic reading Hands on Workshop Introduction of the H2O Playlist tool

Seminar – Information Literacy

Seminar – How to approach academic reading

Hands on Workshop

Introduction of the H2O Playlist tool

What the students did Reading for the assignment creation of assessed Playlist written assignment and.. continued use of H2O beyond this

Reading for the assignment

creation of assessed Playlist

written assignment

and.. continued use of H2O beyond this

H2O Playlisthttp://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/“a shared list of readings and other content about a topic of intellectual interest”

Student playlist

Tutor comments

Analysis of each article found

Marks Comparison

DiscussionOur findings are inline with similar research in the UK(JISC student expectations of e-learning, Google Generation report etc.)Good IT literacy - poor information literacyStudents need tutor guidance in the selection of software to use in Higher Education

Our findings are inline with similar research in the UK(JISC student expectations of e-learning, Google Generation report etc.)

Good IT literacy - poor information literacy

Students need tutor guidance in the selection of software to use in Higher Education

Next Steps – future research Stepping stone to using other referencing software (RefWorks, Endnote) Research other social bookmarking Tools? (E.g. Connotea, Blackboard Scholar) Application in other subjects? Longitudinal study – impact on rest of the degree/ lifelong learning?

Stepping stone to using other referencing software (RefWorks, Endnote)

Research other social bookmarking Tools? (E.g. Connotea, Blackboard Scholar)

Application in other subjects?

Longitudinal study – impact on rest of the degree/ lifelong learning?

Any Questions?emma.thompson@liv.ac.uknbunyan@liv.ac.uk