Digital Assessment Literacy in Online Courses (Formative/Summative)

2022 ◽  
pp. 404-417
Author(s):  
Ramashego Shila Mphahlele
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Assessment Literacy ◽  
Digital Assessment ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Specific Assessment ◽  
Assessment Strategies

Assessment is a valuable process that assists teachers to identify teaching practices that are effective for all students since not every student learns or retains information in the same way. In the open, distance, and e-learning (ODeL) environment, specific assessment strategies can be employed to make a judgment and make the best decisions about the student's achievement. Due to the nature of the ODeL learning environment, assessments should be digital for powerful insights without the paperwork. This chapter employed digital assessment literacy to provide a particular perspective of assessment strategies in the ODeL.

A Conceptual Framework for E-Assessment in Higher Education

2014 ◽  
pp. 652-673 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luís Tinoca ◽  
Alda Pereira ◽  
Isolina Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Assessment Culture ◽  
Digital Assessment ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Assessment In Higher Education ◽  
Assessment Strategies

The assessment of competences requires an approach where knowledge, abilities, and attitudes are integrated, naturally implying the resource to a variety of assessment strategies. Within this context, we have seen the emergence of what has been called by several authors, the Assessment Culture. Furthermore, Higher Education e-learning environments have also promoted the use of new e-assessment strategies. Therefore, it is important to reconsider the concept of quality assessment in Higher Education online contexts, and particularly how to develop it in the present learning landscapes. In this chapter, the authors present a new conceptual framework for digital assessment in Higher Education supported by four dimensions—authenticity, consistency, transparency, and practicability—each composed by a set of criteria, aimed at promoting the quality of the assessment strategies being used. This framework was developed based on the expansion of the concept of validity supported by edumetric qualities.

scholarly journals The Application of Eportfolio in Higher Education: implications for Student Learning

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Andrea Ximena Castaño Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
The University ◽  
Assessment Strategies

Nowadays universities are introducing educational changes in their teaching practices and their assessment strategies. These changes are involving many areas in the university. One of the places where most of the changes are initiated is from the classroom settings. To support them, eportfolios in general are being used as a form to align the principles stated from the Bolonia Process towards a teaching more centred on the student supporting other aspects like mobility and recognition. Therefore, developing effective use of technology applied to education for teaching and learning has become an important challenge. In this regard, the main goal of this thesis was to identify learning environment characteristics when applying eportfolios for teaching and learning and students’ characteristics that could influence a meaningful learning.

MOOCs on Mobiles

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Jean-Éric Pelet ◽  
Marlene A. Pratt ◽  
Stéphane Fauvy
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Management System ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Content Management System ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
School Students ◽  
E Learning

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have gained popularity for e-learning purposes. Effectiveness of a MOOC depends on the platform interface design and management, which should create student cohesiveness and optimize collaboration. A MOOC prototype was developed and e-learning applications were pilot-tested for one semester with a total of 160 students from graduate courses in a French business school. Students used a mobile supported e-learning environment and reported their experiences through the writing of a synthesis, the building of a CMS (Content Management System) and the elaboration of a content curation system.

scholarly journals Digital Immigrants in a Blended Learning Environment: A Case Study in Malaysia

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. p28
Author(s):  
Chng Lay Kee ◽  
Jasmine Selvarani Emmanuel
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Digital Immigrants ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
First Semester ◽  
E Learning

In this rapidly changing environment, an increasing number of people are turning towards open distance universities to earn their degrees, develop new skills and acquire current knowledge in order to upgrade themselves in their professions. A number of them who enrol in these blended learning or fully online courses are middle-aged, born or brought up before the widespread use of digital technology. These digital immigrants, being used to traditional classrooms, are not very tech savvy and can be fearful about using technology as part of their learning. This study gives an insight into their learning styles, learning emotions, challenges and experience of using technology in the e-learning process during their first semester at an open distance university. The findings show that regardless of the difficulties and challenges that participants had gone through during the semester, all participants observed some changes in themselves such as the increase of confidence levels, better stress and time management skills, improvement in writing skills and becoming more independent learners with an increased ability to use technological tools for their learning. In addition, even though the learning environment is technology-based, digital immigrants maintain that they still prefer the blended learning mode rather than going completely online.

scholarly journals B-learning Quality: Dimensions, Criteria and Pedagogical Approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Peres ◽  
L. Lima ◽  
V. Lima
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Quality Dimensions ◽  
Enhanced Learning ◽  
Complete Framework

Abstract Measuring the quality of a b-learning environment is critical to determine the success of a blearning course. Several initiatives have been recently conducted on benchmarking and quality in e-learning. Despite these efforts in defining and examining quality issues concerning online courses, a defining instrument to evaluate quality is one of the key challenges for blended learning, since it incorporates both traditional and online instruction methods. For this paper, six frameworks for quality assessment of technological enhanced learning were examined and compared regarding similarities and differences. These frameworks aim at the same global objective: the quality of e-learning environment/products. They present different perspectives but also many common issues. Some of them are more specific and related to the course and others are more global and related to institutional aspects. In this work we collected and arrange all the quality criteria identified in order to get a more complete framework and determine if it fits our b-learning environment. We also included elements related to our own b-learning research and experience, acquired during more than 10 years of experience. As a result we have create a new quality reference with a set of dimensions and criteria that should be taken into account when you are analyzing, designing, developing, implementing and evaluating a b-learning environment. Besides these perspectives on what to do when you are developing a b-learning environment we have also included pedagogical issues in order to give directions on how to do it to reach the success of the learning. The information, concepts and procedures here presented give support to teachers and instructors, which intend to validate the quality of their blended learning courses.

scholarly journals The Use of e-Learning Course during the COVID-19: A Systems Thinking Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 2157-2160
Author(s):  
Chin-Yen Alice Liu
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
E Learning ◽  
National Emergency

In the era of theInternet, most educators have been supported by powerful tools ranging from e-books and e-learning sites to cloud services, and students’ learning environment has been a mix between traditional study (in class) and e-learning through some kind of online learning platform. Due to the uncertainty of the rapidly changing COVID-19 situation, all colleges and universities have to shutter their physical campuses and move their courses to remote and online formats hastily. This prompted many to wonder if all of the faculty are ready and qualified to teach online courses and/or if all of the students are ready to learn in the comprehensive online environment. If not, what ultimate impact will be to our higher education during this national emergency virus pandemic since there is no choice but depend on where they sit currently, not to mention the negative reviews and concerns regarding the online education. To make this transfer seamlessly and conflict mitigation, this paper applied systems thinking for an e-Learning course and proposed a flexible grading method for an e-learning environment, which will enhance students’ grades by allowing students to control their own study paces and the amount of efforts spent in the course, which can bring a successful online learning experience.

Utilization of MOOCs Platform for E-Learning Environment in Higher Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 117-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdus Samim
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
The World ◽  
E Learning

This chapter is a study of the utilization of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for learning in the higher education, given by the top universities in the world. As we know, MOOC platforms are widely popular in the field of e-learning, in the dissemination of higher education all over the world. Such initiatives are essential for students or people who want to be involved in higher education without going to a university for the completion of degree courses. This study found that most of the top universities started MOOCs in 2012 and found that a 72.7% majority of universities offered diploma and certificate courses to people through MOOCs. It was also found that the eDX platform was used by all the selected universities in providing MOOCs.

Pedagogical Mediator as the Strategic Competence at University Professors Building in Constructionist Online Environment

2010 ◽  
pp. 140-149
Author(s):  
Flávia Amaral Rezende
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The University

The rapid dissemination and integration of the World Wide Web (also known as Internet), and its related technologies, has resulted in major growth of the educational field through the Internet in such areas as e-learning and e-training. In August 2002, the Ministry of Education established the rules for distance education courses at the university level (Portaria nº 2.253) allowing up 20% of the total course hours to be administered through distance education. At the same time, the Comitê de Educação a Distância from the Distance Education Secretary – SEED/MEC published the Distance Education Quality Indicators, which presents pedagogical guidelines that are clearly constructionist, consistent with those adopted by the Brazilian informatics in education program developed during the 1980’s and 90’s. However an important question remains: how to prepare university professors to be able to function in highly interactive constructionist learning environments? How to develop competencies as planning, designing and implementing such constructionist courses? This research has simultaneously investigated two aspects: developing, implementing and evaluating the characteristics of a constructionist environment and, at the same time,the use of this environment as part of an introductory on-line course to prepare a group of professors from Universidade Cidade de São Paulo (Brazil) to be able to function as mediators in the constructionist online learning environment. The findings indicate that it is possible to create a constructionist learning environment and to prepare university professors through online courses based upon Inverted Symmetry concepts and upon the in-service course based on the estar-junto-virtual (“virtual being together”) approach, to build what we called In-vIsIble reflectIve network, thus allowing the professors to assume news roles not only in the online environment but in the face-to-face education situation as well. This course is the first step for continuous long life learning to be a “ciber teacher”.

Assessing Language in an E-Learning Environment

2019 ◽  
pp. 244-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca LaPlante
Keyword(s):  
Test Performance ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Discussion Boards ◽  
Screen Design ◽  
Summative Assessments ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Assessment Strategies

The aim of this chapter is to help guide language instructors with assessment strategies for online courses. The chapter is based on the theoretical background of constructivism and principles for distance learning. Assessment strategies for both formative and summative assessments include tools for implementing discussion boards, wikis, e-portfolios, integrated skills assessment, synchronous and asynchronous communication, and scoring tools. This guided chapter is appropriate for instructors with little to no experience in online testing, or for the more experienced with topics including scenario-based assessments and gamification. Furthermore, the chapter covers implementation strategies that can affect test performance and validity in regards to screen design, security, and directions.

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