1. Faculty of Social Sciences
  2. School of Education
  3. Research and expertise
  4. Research projects
  5. AWESOME Dissertation

Research project

AWESOME Dissertation

  • Start date: 1 January 2008
  • End date: 28 February 2008
  • Co-investigators: 00901524; Dr Lydia Lau - School of Computing; Dr Vania Dimitrova - School of Computing; Sirisha Bajanki - School of Computing

This project aims to develop, deploy in real settings and disseminate a personalised social virtual environment to support dissertation writing (AWESOME-Dissertation) based on sound pedagogical models, using authentic examples, and following Web 2.0. tenets, namely collective intelligence and active engagement of users in creating and sharing content.

Our main project website is at http://elgg.jiscemerge.org.uk/awesome/1. The poster that we presented at ALT-C 20082 is available on our main project website.

Project partners:

University of Leeds (coordinator) School of Education & Lifelong Learning Institute; School of Computing; Staff Support and Development Unit

UNniversity of Coventry - Centre for Academic Writing

University of Bangor - School of Lifelong Learning