Developing and disseminating learning resources
Topic: Using students' work as a teaching resource
When and how is it appropriate to use the work of one student to support subsequent teaching and learning of other students?
This topic is designed to help you improve:
- your understanding of propriety and integrity issues when you use examples of a student's work for the benefit of other students
- your skills in giving suitable acknowledgment to students when you use their work for this purpose
In this topic two academics share with you their own experiences with acknowledgement, in re-using students' work for teaching other students.
Further reading on this topic:
Legal issues at a distance. Penn State World Campus Fac Dev 101 Lesson 7 Use of student work. Retrieved June 1, 2006 from https://courses.worldcampus.psu.edu:443/facdev101/content/lesson7/lesson7_04.shtml*
Offers this succinct advice:
“You may wish to include in your course examples of "exceptional" student essays, papers, etc., from past offerings of the course. This is a good idea, as it permits students currently enrolled in the course to develop a better understanding of your expectations for their performance in the course. … One of the issues that you need to consider is that ownership of student work submitted during participation in a course still rests with the student. If you wish to include such items in your course, you will need to clear the use of these items with their original authors (getting such permission in writing is a good idea). It would also be a good idea to find out whether the student wishes to have his/her name associated with an example when it is used in the course.”
Overview | Compiling learning materials for your students | Using students' work as a teaching resource
Publishing curriculum and learning materials | Authoring reusable learning objects
* Used with permission of Penn State University.