OASIS Online System

# News on OASIS # At the beginning of 2020, we recruited our first commercial user in financial sector (a state-owned bank in Hong Kong. The information of the bank is covered due to the privacy law). The bank's SVP and department's head used OASIS to address the gratuity distribution problem among his colleagues.
The implementation is successful. Moreover, the SVP thinks highly of the potential of the OASIS's implementation in his bank.

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# Findings on OASIS # From the observation of our latest commercial implementation of a toy factory, we got some interesting findings:

- Compared with academic users, the commercial user’s team members tend to give more unequal assessment of contributions;
- OASIS aligns incentive between team members and the management, it addresses the principal–agent problem in managing a well-established business.

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# News on OASIS # Dr. Leo Xie from Shanghai International Studies University thinks OASIS is very helpful.
--"OASIS will do me a great favor in preventing the presence of student complaint.(如果能夠防止free rider的投訴，OASIS真是幫了我大忙)"

# News on OASIS # Our second publication--"Reducing Costly Free-rider Effects via OASIS" (link: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJCED-07-2019-0041/full/html) was accepted by International Journal of Comparative Education and Development. This time, we analyzed 298 student users' feedback data and we found:
-- OASIS is welcomed by teachers as its easy to use, transparent, objective and discouraged free ridings;
-- After the OASIS intervention, students were less likely to perceive that free riders have harmed them or hindered fair grading.

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# News on OASIS #
Our first commercial user -- Goabroad has completed their first trial on OASIS website at late August, 2019. They think highly of OASIS as the website simplified the assessment procedure. Besides, they indicated that OASIS can also encourage students to re-consider the value of team work.

# News on OASIS # A testimonial page is updated on our website! Please check our website if your want to know more: http://oasis-development.herokuapp.com/pages/testimonials/

# OASIS Publication # OASIS was proven to be useful and fair in its latest publication (2018):
(1) OASIS encourages student participation in team projects;
(2) it can detect free riding in a team project;
(3) it fairly scores individual contributions by members of a team project;
(4) it is user friendly; and
(5) it benefits students, teachers and university management.
More information, please check from our website:

OASIS Thanks to their well-documented benefits, team projects are increasingly popular as a valuable learning/teaching tool in higher education. Fully realizing such benefits, however, is predicted on the presumption of no free riding. Hence, a suitably designed assessment method for team projects should....

# News on OASIS # Our first institutional user in mainland China! The director of the Academic Affairs Office Chen Xin (陳新) from Yunnan Normal University shows great interest in OASIS.
--"我們對OASIS非常感興趣，如無不便希望在全校進行推廣。"

# News on OASIS # Dr. Hemant Kumar Padhiari is an Associate Professor at Goa Institute of Management. He praises that the statement of output makes great contributions to the project's completion and quality.

--"The preparation of the statement of output is useful in our recapping and reflections of the course; the statement of output contributes to the fair grading of our individual contributions to the project’s completion and quality."

# News on OASIS # Dr. Alice Shiu is an Associate Professor at the School of Accounting and Finance (AF) in Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) (https://af.polyu.edu.hk/people/academic-staff/dr-alice-shiu/).
She started to use OASIS since Semester 2 of the 2017-2018 academic year. The course has over 500 students per year. She has positive comments of OASIS implementation.
--"The largest contributions of OASIS lie in its ability to prevent and identify free-riding behavior."