Global Lehigh Strategic Initiatives (without descriptions)
e-Assessment landscape and trends
1. Grainne Hamilton, Jisc RSC Scotland
e-Assessment Landscape andTrends
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2. PROGRAMME
10.30am – 10.45am: Hearing the StudentVoice: SQA’s experience
MartynWare, SQA
10.45am – 12.30pm: How to include students in assessment decisions
MikeWilliamson, SPARQS
12.30pm – 1.30pm: Lunch
1.30pm – 1.45pm : e–Assessment landscape and trends
Grainne Hamilton, Jisc RSC Scotland
1.45pm – 3.30pm: Embedding student involvement in assessment decisions /
managing this process / developing institutional strategy
Jacquie Kelly and Marianne Sheppard, Jisc infoNet
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3. ETNA 2013 Report
»e-Assessment has increased since the 2009 ETNA survey,
however, usage is still relatively low
»54% of academics responded that students engage well with e-
Assessment tools
»Just under half of academics reported that they felt e-Portfolio
systems enhance the learning experience but many felt that
students don't engage well with them
»Majority of colleges in Scotland are using the following e-
Assessment tools:
› Assessment tools within theVLE, SOLAR, GOLA, Evolve,
Turnitin
»Many academics use tools for assessment that are not specifically
created for that purpose, eg twitter, wikis or blogs
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Snapshot of ICT use across Scotland's colleges
4. Horizon Report 2014
KeyTrends Accelerating Higher EducationTechnology Adoption
Fast trends (1-2 years):
»Integration of Online, Hybrid, and Collaborative Learning
Mid-RangeTrends (3-5 years):
»Rise of Data-Driven Learning and Assessment
Important Developments in EducationalTechnology for Higher
Education
Time-to-Adoption (2-3 years):
»Games and Gamification (including badges)
Also references assessment of non-formal and informal learning
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Key trends relating to assessment
5. Online, Hybrid, Collaborative, Data-
Driven
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Edinburgh Road Network Analysis image from flickr by stevefaeembra CC BY SA 2.0
6. Horizon Report 2014
KeyTrends Accelerating Higher Education Technology
Adoption - Fast trends (1-2 years):
»Integration of Online, Hybrid, and Collaborative
Learning
› Implications for institutional infrastructures, eg wifi
provision, use of mobile devices, BYOD
› Assessment of non-formal and informal learning
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Key trends relating to assessment
7. Horizon Report 2014
KeyTrends Accelerating Higher Education Technology
Adoption - Mid-Range Trends (3-5 years):
»Rise of Data-Driven Learning and Assessment
› Also investigated in Jisc Assessment and Feedback
programme projects
› Student dashboards used to show patterns, identify
intervention / support requirements, improve
retention
› Just InTimeTeaching based on learning analytics
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Key trends relating to assessment
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Personalising the learning experience through use of analytics dataMore online data means student learning and patterns can be trackedIncreased use of institutional dashboards to look at trends, can be used by students to provide a view on their study patterns, by support services to see where support interventions might be required, by teaching staff to quickly gain an overview of a student's work and see where encouragement might be requiredNew tools for adaptive learning are being developed which can be used to measure student comprehension in real time and adjust content as needed
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Games can also be used to inspire and motivate students that were perhaps harder to reach with other methods of teaching and although they might not be used often in summative assessment currently, providing motivation to learn is likely to result in a deeper engagement with the subject. At the top end of the spectrum, a particularly innovative examples using games for assessment can be found in the work of Helen Keegan at the University of Salford, who developed an alternate reality game to teach the alternate reality games part of the syllabus. The students were given clues they had to follow and it was their natural curiosity that led them to continue to follow the clues and do the tasks in the game. They didn't realise that by following the game through and completing the final task, they would also complete their summative assessment. So the game used stealth assessment and people's natural sense of curiosity to take the students deeper into the learning. This example of this kind of assessment required quite a lot of resources, the personal contacts of the tutor to create some of the aspects of the game and huge amounts of creativity but I think the lessons of being creative and building on people's sense of curiosity and desire to overcome interesting challenges to prompt learners to engage with learning and associated tasks are important and can help create assessments students want to engage with.
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P2PU Assessment on the web report - how to assess in the online environment, in collaborative online communities - example of our Influencer badge; peer assessmenHort - learning through assessing With the increase in MOOCs, more consideration required of informal and non-formal learning - again badges could be part of thisLink with use of Social media, Horizon Report states that the top 25 social media sites share 6.3 billion account among them. Institutions will need to consider policies for e-safety, safe areas for discussion at the same time as leveraging what is becoming a core part of everyday communication
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