期刊名称：Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology
印刷版ISSN：1547-5840
电子版ISSN：1547-5867
出版年度：2008
卷号：5
页码：297-310
出版社：Informing Science Institute
摘要：The Open Assignment Submission (OAS) is an innovative regime whereby students submit
homework assignments of an appropriate nature into a designated open forum provided by the
Learning Management System (LMS). Our previous research, carried out with a cohort of Education
graduates, indicated possible benefits and challenges of OAS as a means of supporting assignment
submission through learning from peer examples. The current paper presents a recent
explorative case study into the behaviour patterns and views of 55 first year students regarding
OAS, during the very early stages of the Academic Literacy course.
Drawing on two main data sources (a self-report questionnaire and data of student access and
submission retrieved from the course LMS records) we have found characteristic patterns of peerexample
viewing, assignment submission schedules and related grades. The OAS regime appears
to provide an appreciated learning support and has a potential to promote intentional learning.
