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Dr. Eloise Tan National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and
LearningTwitter: @t_Eloise
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• Experiences with online assessment• Digital Roadmap – focus on assessment • Examining (possible) assumptions around
online assumptions• Practical example of programme development
from Elaine Questions throughout please!
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Discussion forumsLearning journals
Wikis
Online quizzes, tests, exams
BlogsE-portfolios
Peer assessment
Simulation and games
Podcasts/screencasts
Video
Annotated feedback
Originality checking software
Which have you used?
Which would you like to use?
Any that you think ‘their time has come
and gone’?
What’s stopping you?
Anything missing here?
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• H. A focus on assessment and feedback as key routes to digital-capacity development and innovation
• http://teachingandlearning.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Digital-Roadmap-PHASE1MAY282014.pdf
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“An effective approach to assessment is one in which there is alignment between
the teaching objectives, teaching methods, learner tasks and the assessment tools used.
Digitally-supported learning is no different in this regard” (National Forum, 2014, p.17)
http://teachingandlearning.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Digital-Roadmap-PHASE1MAY282014.pdf).
Then, what IS different about online
assessment???
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“The technologies can provide considerable support for the development and management of a range of forms of assessment, but their particular use requires careful pedagogical consideration. Effective and efficient assessment systems also require sustainable investment, a robust infrastructure, technical support and training”(National Forum, 2014, p.17)
http://teachingandlearning.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Digital-Roadmap-PHASE1MAY282014.pdf).
What is your aim in adopting online assessment? Efficiency or
effectiveness? Both?
Are you prioritising one over the other? Should you?
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• careful pedagogical consideration
• sustainable investment, • a robust infrastructure, • technical support and • training
So from the Digital Roadmap, using technology to support assessment requires the following:
http://teachingandlearning.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Digital-Roadmap-PHASE1MAY282014.pdf).
(National Forum, 2014, p.17)
Time and/or resourcesHow will it work with existing
systems?
Who’s going to support YOU and your students
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4. The development of new approaches to assessment and feedback that leverage the potential of digital technologies to enhance and transform student learning in ways that support students’ performance and
prepare them for a world that is increasingly digital.
Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (Building Digital Capacity in Irish Higher Education)
Call for Proposals—Phase 1—2014
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Palloff and Pratt (2009) Assessing the Online Learner
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• Learner-centred • Encourage self reflection• Include rubrics for discussion / assignments /
collaboration• Encourage self and peer assessment• Contextual and aligned to learning outcomes• Include learner input
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1. Classes are composed of ‘21st century learners / educators’2. Educators should strive for a learner-centred process / students want a learner-centred process3. Online assessment / feedback tools are reusable and efficient4. Student input into assessment design is helpful
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• "Many of today's students are entering online classroom with a higher level of technical skill than their instructors possess“ (p.44)
• Marc Prensky’s ‘Digital immigrants and natives’ http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/prensky%20-%20digital%20natives,%20digital%20immigrants%20-%20part1.pdf
Michael Wesch’s video ‘A vision of Student’s Today’ based on his undergraduate class of 200 cultural anthropology studentshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
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However…• “Involvement in social networking is different from participating in
an online course” (p.29)• “teachers should not assume that because many children are
adept at using new and emerging technology, that they are able to apply them freely in formalised learning contexts…children may have skills in the use of technology, but teachers have the skills and the knowledge to create engaging and exciting learning opportunities and environments”
http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2011/05/natives-are-revolting.html
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• ILTA’s Multi Institutional Survey of usage of Virtual Learning Environments (VLE)
• Over 20,000 students http://www.slideshare.net/CTLatUL/ed-tech2013-25914828
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• Focus group with students to inform Digital Roadmap (Digital Roadmap Appendices, p.123)
http://teachingandlearning.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Digital-Roadmap-Appendices-DRAFT-3.pdf
I see a lot of people in my class that need help with
technology
I wish they would teach us more about what we
should know about digital identities and the
workplace
I find myself often helping out other students with technology, I don’t mind
but could someone else do that?
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• Assumptions about the technical abilities / needs / wants of learners should not lead the design of online education
• Technology should be a vehicle for the pedagogy, not drive the pedagogy.
• 21st century learner concept assumes a homogeneity for our students abilities / needs
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Sage on the stage v. guide on the side (King, 1993)
http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/index.php?title=Conceptual_Change
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Gibbs (1992): “learner-centred learning gives learners greater autonomy and control over choice of subject matter, learning methods and pace of study ”Gibbs, G. (1992). Assessing More Students. Oxford: Oxford Centre for Staff Development.
“student responsibility and activity in learning” (Cannon and Newble in Lea et al, 2003: 321).
Lea, S.J., Stephenson, D. & Troy, J. (2003) Higher Education Students’ Attitudes to Student-centred Learning: Beyond ‘educational bulimia’? Studies in Higher Education, 28(3), 321-334
Other definitions of Learner-centred pedagogy• http://www.intime.uni.edu/model/center_of_learning_files/definition.html.• http://www.aishe.org/readings/2005-1/oneill-mcmahon-Tues_19th_Oct_SCL.html
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Teachers in higher education “need to stimulate active, not passive learning, and to encourage students to be critical, creative thinkers, with the capacity to go on learning after their college days are over” (DES, 52-53, 2011).
• http://www.irishtimes.com/focus/2011/hunt-report/index.pdf
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A learner centred assessment must be designed within the context of learning outcomes designed with self reflection and learner-centredness in mind.
Students (and educators) need to be scaffolded in the move towards learner centredness.
A programmatic approach would help here.
Students encountering learner centred approaches in one module might find it difficult to adjust/grasp what the expectations are.
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Open Educational Resources (OERs)- Digitised, online teaching and learning resources
available to the public- Open licensing
Video explaining Creative Commonshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DKm96FtfkoFAQs on OERsfrom the HEA UKhttp://www.engsc.ac.uk/oer/faq
Image credit: http://cnx.org/content/m35664/latest/
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• http://www.jorum.ac.uk/– Search: Learning theories higher education
• http://www.open.edu• http://www.open.edu/itunes//openlearn/• https://dspace.ndlr.ie/
– Previous Irish repository
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• Reusable resource does not equal appropriate resource
• New area of intellectual property, must be informed
• http://theedublogger.com/2012/02/09/the-educators-guide-to-copyright-fair-use-and-creative-commons/
• If reusability is a factor in design then tools can save time / energy (ex. General feedback)
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http://pearsonewa.pbworks.com/w/file/47125124/Student%20Choice%20Assessment%20Standard%20PDF.pdf
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O’Neill, G (Ed) (2011) A Practitioner’s Guide to Choice of Assessment Methods within a Module, Dublin: UCD Teaching and Learning,
http://www.ucd.ie/teaching/resources/assessment/howdoyouassessstudentlearning/
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• Move towards learner input must be scaffolded
• Students may not choose what you think they should
• The ‘choices’ must each be aligned with the learning outcomes, choice for choice’s sake is meaningless
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1. Classes are composed of ‘21st century learners / educators’2. Educators should strive for a learner-centred process / students want a learner-centred process3. Online assessment / feedback tools are reusable and efficient4. Student input into assessment design is helpful
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• Learner-centred • Encourage self reflection• Include rubrics for discussion / assignments /
collaboration• Encourage self and peer assessment• Contextual and aligned to learning outcomes• Include learner input
These may not suit all teaching contexts.
Some might be aspirations rather than
principles.
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What students can produce using technology may be different in form and content to what they produce without technology
Think about blogs or
ePortfolios or videos.
How do you know how to
assess an essay, report or test – because you did them
yourself?
Need a clear strategy for what you are assessing online- content,
process, technical flair?
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