This is a project I sliced from my dissertation study and presented at the 2018 ACM Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (SIGDOC) annual conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I participated in the Microsoft Student Research Competition and was awarded 2nd place for this project. This study shares the story of a design challenge a … Continue reading Learning by Designing & Making: A Design Challenge Project in TWC
Conference
Is There a Robot in This Class? On Writing & AES
This presentation was delivered at the 2014 Conference on College Composition and Communication in Indianapolis, IN, March 24, 2014. Automated essay scoring (AES) is the use of specialized computer programs to assign grades to essays written in an educational setting. It is a method of educational assessment and an application of natural language processing. Its … Continue reading Is There a Robot in This Class? On Writing & AES
How are We MOOCing?
This winter break and holidays have been an ideal time for me to work on my MA research, which focuses on power and ideological borders within MOOC interfaces. Having already written about 40% of the anticipated 15,000-word thesis essay, I find my interest and desire to learn about MOOCs grow stronger each time I come … Continue reading How are We MOOCing?
Prepping for NCA Convention
This summer, I was notified that my proposal to present at the coming National Communication Association annual convention has been accepted. It was a paper I developed for a mass communication research methods course last year. I must confess that I am really excited for this is my first (national) conference in the communication discipline. … Continue reading Prepping for NCA Convention
Virtual Cocktail Party: Can Online Education Teach Social Skills?
Those of you who have been around me probably know that my research interests revolve around digital rhetoric and online pedagogy, especially the development of MOOCs, or massive open online courses. This summer, I took a composition MOOC offered on Coursera, delivered by Georgia Tech, as part of my research in digital rhetoric. Following a phenomenological approach, … Continue reading Virtual Cocktail Party: Can Online Education Teach Social Skills?
Jason Tham, Ph.D. 