A few weeks ago, I attended a symposium on learning analytics, jointly sponsored by NERCOMP and Educause ELI. It was a day well spent. The morning session consisted of presentations on Learning Analytics; the afternoon session was hands-on. Each team was asked to design an application that would do some form of learning analytics. What was at stake was a… (more…)
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The Musical Staircase
At a recent meeting, one of the faculty members reported on a research article she had read regarding a musical staircase. What she said was that in the experiment researchers set up a system whereby a staircase played music while an escalator in close proximity did not. They wanted to determine whether people would prefer to take the musical staircase… (more…)
What are you assessing?
Assessment was a brief topic of discussion at a recent meeting I had with the CIO. We were discussing the various methods of assessment in the LMS, when he told me that a one of our professors had announced that he never gives students quizzes, nor does he ever give written assignments or papers. He assesses his students solely through… (more…)
Developing Programs
Though colleges and universities are accredited by large institutions both regionally and nationally, they often have very different methods for developing programs, approving courses (new and change of delivery format), and for assessment. Sadly, there is a very large portion of them that have yet to get a handle on building assessment into program design so that it makes sense,… (more…)
That’s you all over
There’s a scene in The Wizard of Oz where the Wicked Witch sends her monkeys to tear the Scarecrow apart, leaving pieces of him strewn in the field. The Tin Man and the Lion arrive after the fact. When the Scarecrow explains what happened, the Tin Man humorously remarks “Well, that’s you all over…” This is what I think of… (more…)
- A critical look at education: assessment of learning, institutional assessments, and assessments of the education system
Open Education Week: March 5 – 10, 2012
The OpenCourseWare Consortium announces the first annual Open Education Week from March 5-10, 2012. Open Education Week is a global event that seeks to raise awareness about the benefits of free and open sharing in education, especially Open Educational Resources (OER). OER are high-quality, free and open educational materials that offer opportunities for people anywhere in the world to share, use and reuse. “The vision of the open education movement is to create a world in which the desire to learn is fully met by the opportunity to do so, where everyone, everywhere, is able to access affordable, educationally and culturally appropriate opportunities to gain whatever knowledge or training they desire.-
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