Tim S. Roberts

Tim S Roberts is a Senior Lecturer with the Faculty of Informatics and Communication at the Bundaberg campus of Central Queensland University. He has been teaching online courses since 1992, including computer programming to over a thousand students located throughout Australia and overseas, many of them studying entirely online. In 2001 together with Lissa McNamee and Sallyanne Williams he developed the Online Collaborative Learning in Higher Education web site at http://clp.cqu.edu.au, and in 2002 with Joanne McInnerney the Assessment in Higher Education web site at http://ahe.cqu.edu.au. He was awarded the Bundaberg City Council’s prize for excellence in research in 2001, and the Dean’s Award for quality research in 2002. He edited Online Collaborative Learning: Theory and Practice in 2003.

Publications

Collaborative and Cooperative Learning
Collaborative and Cooperative Learning
Joanne M. McInnerney, Tim S. Roberts. © 2009. 8 pages.
The last few years have seen massive changes in how undergraduate and postgraduate courses are delivered. It is now expected that much, or perhaps all, of the course content will...
Student Plagiarism in an Online World: Problems and Solutions
Student Plagiarism in an Online World: Problems and Solutions
Tim S. Roberts. © 2008. 320 pages.
Twenty years ago, plagiarism was seen as an isolated misdemeanor, restricted to a small group of students. Today it is widely recognized as a ubiquitous, systemic issue...
Student Plagiarism in an Online World: An Introduction
Student Plagiarism in an Online World: An Introduction
Tim S. Roberts. © 2008. 9 pages.
The purpose of this chapter is to provide an introduction to the problem of student plagiarism in an environment where use of the Internet is commonplace. What is plagiarism, and...
Self, Peer and Group Assessment in E-Learning
Self, Peer and Group Assessment in E-Learning
Tim S. Roberts. © 2006. 333 pages.
How can assessment practices be used to assist and improve the learning process? Self, Peer and Group Assessment in E-Learning attempts to answer this question by bringing...
Self, Peer, and Group Assessment in E-Learning: An Introduction…..
Self, Peer, and Group Assessment in E-Learning: An Introduction…..
Tim S. Roberts. © 2006. 16 pages.
This chapter provides an informal introduction to self, peer, and groupassessment, especially as they may be applied within an online, or e-learning, environment. What is self...
Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning in Higher Education
Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning in Higher Education
Tim S. Roberts. © 2005. 338 pages.
Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning in Higher Education provides a resource for researchers and practitioners in the area of computer-supported collaborative learning (also...
Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning in Higher Education
Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning in Higher Education
Tim S. Roberts. © 2005. 18 pages.
The rapidly increasing use of computers in education, and in particular the migration of many university courses to web-based delivery, has caused a resurgence of interest among...
Online Collaborative Learning: Theory and Practice
Online Collaborative Learning: Theory and Practice
Tim S. Roberts. © 2004. 336 pages.
Online Collaborative Learning: Theory and Practice provides a resource for researchers and practitioners in the area of online collaborative learning (also known as CSCL...
Collaborative or Cooperative Learning?
Collaborative or Cooperative Learning?
Joanne M. McInnerney, Tim S. Roberts. © 2004. 12 pages.
With many educational institutions now making use of the Internet for the delivery of courses, many educators are showing interest in non-standard methodologies for teaching and...