Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024 No Banner module data is available
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Description This module equips participants with the skills to evaluate and develop appropriate online assessment and feedback approaches. This module promotes reflection on current assessment practices for academic practitioners involved in the assessment and feedback cycle. It asks educators to consider how assessment and feedback online can improve pedagogical practice. In this module participants will look at the opportunities and challenges that assessing online brings in the current context of Irish higher education. We will do this through examining current debates on e-assessment across the disciplines, looking at e-assessment possibilities within and outside the VLE. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning Outcomes 1. Reflect on their experience of assessment and feedback including challenges, difficulties, opportunities and requirements. 2. Critique the key assessment and feedback issues in their own disciplinary context. 3. Evaluate contemporary online assessment and feedback approaches in the light of their current teaching context and practice. 4. Design an online assessment and feedback strategy appropriate to their context and discipline. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Overview of AssessmentAssessment and feedback as key aspects of teaching and learningUnderstanding assessment and feedback in an online environmentWe will examine the opportunities and challenges that online assessment brings, specifically issues of higher order learning, sustainability, and support.Design principles for effective online assessment and feedback.A look at the relevant concepts when designing online assessments and feedback: authenticity, accessibility, rubrics, Open Educational Resources, and scaffolding are among concepts discussedSocial learning in the online environmentFocus on the concept of social learning and what role technology can play in self and peer assessment, and group work. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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