The platform hosting assignments and discussion: how it works

From Copyright for Librarians

The platform hosting assignments and discussion: how it works

The H2O Rotisserie is the tool where you will answer questions, likely to enable community building and collaborative work.

It manages automatically the process of sending questions to those enrolled in the course; and host assignments and the discussion between the participants after reading the course material.

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By using the Rotisserie, we intend to give the course the interactivity that will enrich the learning process by allowing learners from different backgrounds and perspectives to dialog, with the common goal of understanding how copyright law works and what are the different practices and options.

Instructors can program ad hoc Rotisserie sessions and dates for each new class. Steps are described here. Questions and assignments related to the course also may be implemented on other distance learning platforms, or support group discussion in a class.

Learners should register to the Rotisserie before starting the course to join a session when available. Registration steps are described here

For each of the course modules, after reading the textbook on Connexions, learners will receive emails prompting them to answer to various questions before a given deadline. They will perform research to answer to the questions which will sent to them automatically together with a deadline. At the end of a first round of question and answers, they will receive a second email inviting them to read their peers' answers, and to comment upon them, also with a deadline.

All answers and subsequent discussion threats will be archived on the Rotisserie, and available either to the registered participants only, or to the public, depending on the Rotisserie discussion settings.

Each module is organized around two rounds of questions, in order to foster a debate between the participants after a first round of personal reading and research.

Summary: Connexions hosts the course textbook structured into modules, while the Rotisserie provides interactivity to the modules, with assignments automatic follow-up and structured discussion.