Assessment in Open, Distance, and e-Learning: Lessons from Practice
118Assessment in Open, Distance, and e-Learning: Lessons from Practice
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Overview
This book showcases how scholarship as part of academics’ practice can be part of an academic toolkit for change that expands awareness and knowledge of the purposes and effects of the pedagogy of assessment. The case studies – ranging from assessment in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), to assessment design for students whose first language is not English, to the effectiveness of peer learning to support academic integrity and programme-level assessment strategies – are framed by an introduction that explores a ‘communities of practice’ approach to the institution-wide improvement of assessment. It argues – through a case study from The Open University (OU) – that academics’ professional expertise is best deepened through participation in authentic activities of teaching and scholarship. The discussion identifies what is involved in such an approach including the role of an enabling principles-based framework, the constraints on implementation, and the implications for leaders of teaching and learning.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Open Learning journal.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780367584627 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 06/30/2020 |
Pages: | 118 |
Product dimensions: | 6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Sally Jordan is Professor of Physics Education and Head of the Department of Physical Sciences at OU, Milton Keynes, UK. She has wide-ranging interests in assessment and feedback, in particular in factors that influence student engagement with computer-marked assessment and computer-generated feedback. She has written a review of e-assessment and a number of articles on the use of automatically marked short-answer free-text questions. She also has research interests in student misunderstandings in physics and mathematics and in demographic differences in attainment in physics.
Freda Wolfenden is Professor of Education and International Development in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Languages at OU, Milton Keynes, UK. Her expertise is in pedagogy, professional learning and the potential of technology to support learning. Freda has led a number of large-scale, award-winning teacher education projects in multiple contexts characterised by their innovative use of digital technologies and open content (Open Educational Resources and MOOCs). She was academic director of the OU’s New Models of Assessment and Tuition project, a three-year programme aiming to improve assessment practices across the university.