Webinar: Transforming Assessment - next session 6 Aug: Designing e-Assessment Activities for Online Courses

 

Transforming Assessment Webinar Update

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Next session 6 August 'Designing e-Assessment Activities for Online Courses'
Presenter: Mary Jacob, Aberystwyth University (UK)

This session will examine both good and improvable practice across the types of assessment currently used in MOOCs. Principles of effective design can be extended beyond MOOCs to any learning environment, both online and face-to-face. This session looks at both ways to design effective questions with automated feedback for quizzes, and successful approaches to peer assessment, including use of marking rubrics.

RSVP instructions at
http://bit.ly/webinar6aug2014

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Further information:
The Transforming Assessment webinars are part of a series of free events covering a range of e-assessment topics.
Further information on this and future events, recordings of past sessions, project information and participation/technical help on using the virtual classroom system can be found on our website at transformingassessment.com

Acknowledgements:
Support for this activity has been provided by the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching, RMIT University and the Teaching and Educational Development Institute, University of Queensland. The views expressed in this publication/activity do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsoring institutions.
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regards,

Dr Mathew Hillier
Teaching and Educational Development Institute,
The University of Queensland, Australia
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Transforming Assessment

FW: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Assessment Tomorrow 7th e-Vocational Conference 19th November 2014 – Hilton Leeds City see www.e-vocational.co.uk.

Subject: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Assessment Tomorrow 7th e-Vocational Conference 19th November 2014 – Hilton Leeds City see www.e-vocational.co.uk.

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Assessment Tomorrow 7th e-Vocational Conference 19th November 2014 – Hilton Leeds City see www.e-vocational.co.uk.

"Responding to FELTAG – Technology and the Future Requirements for Assessment and Qualifications"

The world of vocational and professional qualifications faces the challenges, of meeting the expectations of learners, industry and government in an era of rapidly changing technologies and systems.

The impact on awarding organisations, assessment bodies, sector skills organisations, colleges, training providers and professional bodies will be profound.

The London Government's response to the recommendations from the Further Education Learning Technology Action Group (FELTAG), BIS, June 2014 has firmly placed technology at the heart of vocational education and qualifications for the foreseeable future.

The conference will take managing the effective use of e-assessment in Vocational, Technical and Professional Qualifications, Education and Training as its focus. It looks at how technology can deliver benefits for the learner, provider, sector and awarding organisation, in an efficient, cost-effective, risk-managed and responsive way.

Early bird discount before 1st October applies, delegate fee is £160 (*) per delegate

Come along and help us examine some of these profound changes and the impact they are having on both formative and summative assessment. The fee for the conference is £190 per delegate + VAT.
Bookings can be made online at www.e-vocational.co.uk.

We trust you or one of your colleagues will be able to join us for what will certainly prove to be an invaluable and thought-provoking event.

Jeff Ross
Director, Assessment Tomorrow
Email: jeff@assessmenttomorrow.com
Telephone: +44 (0) 7785 92039
www.e-vocational.co.uk

FW: next TLC webinar, 19th of July discussing Storytelling for Learning with Prof. Carol Haigh from MMU

 

Teaching and Learning Conversations (TLC)

 

Dear colleagues,

Our next webinar will be on Tuesday the 29 July, 12-1pm GMT (please access the World Clock to convert to your local time). Our guest speakers are Prof. Carol Haigh from MMU will discuss with us Learning through Storytelling.

The live link to the TLC webinar room is https://mmu.adobeconnect.com/tlc/
To login: Enter as a guest and add your name.

When you have entered the webinar room,  start the Audio setup wizard under Meeting at the top left to check your headset.

Please access the webinar room about 30 mins in advance to test the technology. A headset is required to fully participate. Webinars will enable active participation using audio, video, text and the whiteboard creatively

We highly recommend checking your settings and access the webinar room in advance to familiarise yourself with the tool and iron out any difficulties. When entering the room, please add your name and institution/country. For further help with this, please check http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/flex/tlc.php

The recordings will also be made available under a creative commons licence.

 

The TLC is an exciting cross-institutional collaboration to provide open CPD opportunities for everybody teaching and/or supporting learning in Higher Education. TLC  brings together colleagues from different disciplines, institutions and countries. TLCs are also open to students in HE and we are very interested in including students’ contributions to the programme.

Together, we will discuss and debate a variety of current teaching and learning topics in a series of monthly webinars which will be a great opportunity to reflect on our practice but also share good practice and find out what is happening beyond our own institutional walls in the more global HE landscape.

All webinars are open to the wider community to join.

Please feel free to share the link to the TLC programme and individual webinars with others who might also be interested. Further information can be found at http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/flex/tlc.php

 

Wishing you all a lovely weekend and we hope you will be able to join us

 

The TLC team

 

participating institutions

Manchester Metropolitan University, contact Chrissi Nerantzi

University Campus Suffolk, UK, contact Dr Chris Smith

University of Surrey, UK, contact Dr Simon Lygo-Baker

Sheffield Hallam University , UK, contact Andrew Middleton

Anglia Ruskin University, UK, contact Dr Helen Webster

University of Northampton, UK, contact Prof. Ale Armellini

 

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FW: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Assessment Tomorrow 7th e-Vocational Conference 19th November 2014 – Hilton Leeds City see www.e-vocational.co.uk.

 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Assessment Tomorrow 7th e-Vocational Conference 19th November 2014 – Hilton Leeds City see www.e-vocational.co.uk.

"Responding to FELTAG – Technology and the Future Requirements for Assessment and Qualifications"

The world of vocational and professional qualifications faces the challenges, of meeting the expectations of learners, industry and government in an era of rapidly changing technologies and systems.

The impact on awarding organisations, assessment bodies, sector skills organisations, colleges, training providers and professional bodies will be profound.

The London Government's response to the recommendations from the Further Education Learning Technology Action Group (FELTAG), BIS, June 2014 has firmly placed technology at the heart of vocational education and qualifications for the foreseeable future.

The conference will take managing the effective use of e-assessment in Vocational, Technical and Professional Qualifications, Education and Training as its focus. It looks at how technology can deliver benefits for the learner, provider, sector and awarding organisation, in an efficient, cost-effective, risk-managed and responsive way.

Early bird discount before 1st October applies, delegate fee is £160 (*) per delegate

Come along and help us examine some of these profound changes and the impact they are having on both formative and summative assessment. The fee for the conference is £190 per delegate + VAT.
Bookings can be made online at www.e-vocational.co.uk.

We trust you or one of your colleagues will be able to join us for what will certainly prove to be an invaluable and thought-provoking event.

Jeff Ross
Director, Assessment Tomorrow
Email: jeff@assessmenttomorrow.com
Telephone: +44 (0) 7785 92039
www.e-vocational.co.uk

HEIR2014: FROM RESEARCH TO ACTION

HEIR2014: FROM RESEARCH TO ACTION



Monday 8th

 – Tuesday 9th

 September 2014



Oxford Brookes University, Oxford

Programme - http://www.heirnetwork.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/HEIR-2014-Conference-Programme_Draft.pdf

'via Blog this'

FW: SCALE-UP UK Conference 12 Sept 2014 at NTU

Nottingham Trent University is hosting the first UK conference on SCALE-UP (Student-Centred Active Learning Environment with Upside-down Pedagogies) on 12 Sept, 2014.

 

This conference will primarily be of interest to colleagues with an interest in technology-enabled approaches to active learning, such as SCALE-UP and TEAL. It may also be relevant to those using  other flipped learning and/or enquiry-based learning approaches.

 

The keynote speaker is SCALE-UP originator, Professor Robert Beichner, North Carolina State University.Session topics will include: the implementation of SCALE-UP; using technology-rich experimental learning spaces; effective team-based learning; and engaging students with preparation and class activities.

 

Conference registration is open until 5^th September 2014 at: www.ntu.ac.uk/scale_up_conference/. Enquiries can also be addressed to SCALEUP@ntu.ac.uk.

 

I would be grateful if you could forward this information to colleagues who may be interested.

 

Dr. Ellie Kennedy
Centre for Academic Development & Quality
Nottingham Trent University

SCALEUP@ntu.ac.uk