Authentic Assessment in Online Higher Education

2022 ◽  
pp. 175-192
Author(s):  
Mary A. Tkatchov ◽  
Dan Ervin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Authentic Assessment ◽  
Skills Gap ◽  
Professional Goals ◽  
Online Higher Education

Among the increasing pressures on today's higher education providers are the call from employers for improved preparedness of graduates for entering the workforce and the expectation from students that their learning be personalized and targeted toward their unique professional goals. Authentic performance assessment is proposed as an opportunity for higher education to collaborate with industry and create targeted and personalized skills-based performance assessment for adult learners as a means for closing the skills gap between school and work. This chapter provides in-depth descriptions of the characteristics of authentic performance assessment and steps and strategies for creating them.

Fostering Emotional Intelligence in Online Higher Education Courses

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin A. Majeski ◽  
Merrily Stover ◽  
Teresa Valais ◽  
Judah Ronch
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Leadership Management ◽  
Online Higher Education ◽  
Education Courses

Given the complex challenges organizations face and the importance of emotional intelligence to effective leadership, management education has begun to help adult learners develop emotional intelligence competencies. These include emotional self-control, conflict management, teamwork, cultural awareness, and inspirational leadership, among other qualities. Leaders and managers must navigate a landscape of challenges which demand effective teamwork, fresh perspectives, and an empathic understanding of others with whom they work to inform sound decision making. This article discusses aspects of Mayer and Salovey’s model of emotional intelligence. It proposes specific course design and instructional strategies which may foster emotional intelligence in adult learners, especially those in the online learning environment, based on this model. The article points to directions for future research which would empirically examine the effectiveness of these strategies on the development of emotional intelligence in adult learners in online higher education courses.

Internet-based Online Higher Education in Nepal Amidst COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashis Acharya ◽  
Nabaraj Poudyal ◽  
Ganesh Lamichhane ◽  
Babita Aryal ◽  
Bibek Raj Bhattarai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Traditional Concept ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Online Higher Education ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
The Government

The COVID-19 global pandemic has affected all aspects of human life, with education, not an exception. In an attempt to stop the SARS-CoV-2 spreading like wildfire, the Government of Nepal has implemented nationwide lockdowns since March 24, 2020, that have enforced schools and universities to shut down. As a consequence, more than four hundred thousand students of various levels in higher education institutions (HEIs) are in a dilemma about restoring the situation. Several HEIs, nationwide, have leaped forward from the traditional concept of learning—limited within the boundary of the classroom—to choosing digital platforms as an alternative means of teaching because of the pandemic. For this research, the descriptive and inferential analysis was carried out to investigate the effects and challenges of learning via digital platforms during this pandemic. Data were collected from students and faculty at various levels of higher education and analyzed statistically with different factors using t-test and ANOVA, and variables were found to be approximately normally distributed. The study revealed that 70% of the respondents had access to the Internet, but 36% of the Internet accessed did not continue online classes due to unexpected disturbance in Internet and electrical connectivity. Likewise, 65% of students did not feel comfortable with online classes, and among attendees of online classes, 78% of students want to meet the instructor for a better understanding of course matters. According to the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) model, three factors, such as institutional policy, internet access, and poverty, are found to be significant factors affecting the online higher education systems in Nepal. On the brighter side, this outbreak has brought ample opportunities to reform the conventional teaching-learning paradigm in Nepal.

scholarly journals Feeding the online: perspectives on food, nutrition and the online higher education

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Xavier Medina ◽  
Ana Pinto de Moura ◽  
José Antonio Vázquez-Medina ◽  
Jesús Frías ◽  
Alicia Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Higher Education ◽  
Food Nutrition

scholarly journals ICT skills gap in Spain: Before and after a decade of harmonizing the European Higher Education Area

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 934-942
Author(s):  
Ariadna Llorens Garcia ◽  
Joana d’Arc Prat Farran ◽  
Jasmina Berbegal‐Mirabent
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Skills Gap ◽  
European Higher Education Area ◽  
Ict Skills ◽  
Before And After ◽  
European Higher Education

scholarly journals Online Higher Education: Beyond the Hype Cycle

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. McPherson ◽  
Lawrence S. Bacow
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
College Level ◽  
Hype Cycle ◽  
Online Higher Education ◽  
Faculty And Administrators ◽  
Selective Schools ◽  
Start Ups

When two Silicon Valley start-ups, Coursera and Udacity, embarked in 2012 on a bold effort to supply college-level courses for free over the Internet to learners worldwide, the notion of the Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) captured the nation's attention. Although MOOCs are an interesting experiment with a role to play in the future of higher education, they are a surprisingly small part of the online higher education scene. We believe that online education, at least online education that begins to take full advantage of the interactivity offered by the web, is still in its infancy. We begin by sketching out the several faces of online learning—asynchronous, partially asynchronous, the flipped classroom, and others—as well as how the use of online education differs across the spectrum of higher education. We consider how the growth of online education will affect cost and convenience, student learning, and the role of faculty and administrators. We argue that spread of online education through higher education is likely to be slower than many commenters expect. We hope that online education will bring substantial benefits. But less-attractive outcomes are also possible if, for instance, legislators use the existence of online education as an excuse for sharp cuts in higher education budgets that lead to lower-quality education for many students, at the same time that richer, more-selective schools are using online education as one more weapon in the arms race dynamic that is driving costs higher.

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