Distance Learning and AssessmentJane Challinor
Corporate DevelopmentBusiness and Law
• Rationale for e-assessment• Quick look at the technology• Preparing your students• Supporting students• Alternatives to essays• Getting feedback: e-MEQs
Objectives
Knowns and unknowns……
The programme• Frontline Leadership
and Management for NHS Scotland
• 14 Health Boards from Borders to Shetlands
• 4 tutors in Edinburgh, Inverness, Dumfries and Paisley
• 4 modules, 6 cohorts
Conventional assessment
£4 k pa
8 weeks turn around
4 assignments
x146 students x
4 postings
E-assessment• Standard assignments
uploaded using Blackboard – Digital Drop Box
• Returned with mark sheet/feedback attached
• Turnaround: 5 weeks
Insert a document into another
• Complete feedback as you read• Using “comments” in Word as opposed to
handwriting• Quick & legible!!
Add comments
• Not used because of the confidentiality issues involved in writing about real public organisations.
• Assignments are plagiarism proofed because work-based (though referencing still an issue)
• SMEs may have similar concerns about commercial sensitivities?
Preparing for e-assessment
• Handbookpdf online
Face to Face sessions
Blackboardhttp://www.blackboard.uhi.ac.uk
Creating the University of the Highlands and Islands
Go to the UHI Blackboard Site and select User Login
Then type in your UHI username and password - which initially will be your date of birth in the form ddmmyyyy
Detailed instructions:
PowerPoint??
On line induction
Preparing for assessment
• Documentation– Critical analysis– Report/essay writing– Study guides (links to
DMU site)• Tutorials
– On line• Draft assignments and
feedback– Formative assessment
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/study/student_services/lss/focus_on/_focus_materials.jsp
Maintaining momentum• Chat• Discussion Boards
Maintaining momentum
• Verbal Feedback– Podcasts– Skype– Phone
• Written Feedback– Email– assignments
Virtual Classroom
e-tivities
• Activities leading towards assignment• Discussion Board contribution• Digital portfolio• Patchwork assessment
e.g. of wiki submission
• Module on virtual teams• Technology and
communication• Option of 50:50
submission• 2500 word report plus a
wiki developed for work
And finally……….
E-feedback......
Can also have pie charts
Any Questions