Australian non-profit organisation, Transforming Assessment have announced a special double bill webinar next week, for those teaching in the time of COVID19.
Transforming Assessment helps explore assessment in higher education with a particular focus on use of information and communications technology to enhance the assessment of student learning (e-assessment) and is the eleventh year of producing free-to-join webinars and you can register to join with the links below.
The webinars will be as follows:
a) 25 March 2020: Implementing remotely invigilated online exams at scale.
b) 26 March 2020: The KISS approach to teaching online in the time of COVID19.
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a) 25 March 2020: Implementing remotely invigilated online exams at scale.
This session explores key lessons and successes of the University of New England’s experience in implementing large scale remotely invigilated (proctored) online exams where students use their own computer to do an exam in their own space under supervised conditions. This can be used for both higher stakes exams in a live proctored mode and lower stakes testing using automatic monitoring. UNE now has more than 60% of examinable units offering the exams online, and 25% of all exam sittings are undertaken by students this way. This is expected to grow substantially this trimester.
b) 26 March 2020: The KISS approach to teaching online in the time of COVID19.
This session explores a “keep it simple” approach to moving teaching online in a time of crisis. This includes ideas for how to load it, teach it and assess it whilst keeping in mind the limitations faced by those rapidly moving online but also aiming to maximise student engagement in learning.
“As ‘Transforming Assessment’, we are interested in how assessment tasks (both formative and summative) are set and graded within the online environment. Secondly how performance data is collected and then used to give a mark and feedback to students. i.e. such that the assessment process is integrated into the online teaching environment itself. This includes having students carry out the assessment tasks, tracking performance, providing guidance, summing grades and providing feedback.
We have created (both developed ourselves and gathered from others) a collection of exemplars demonstrating complete or part e-assessment workflows within the online environment that will be showcased online and face to face at conferences, workshops and web seminars (webinars).
‘Transforming Assessment’ is the name coined to describe our work. We are entirely non-profit and aim to provide content and resources for free to the academic community and the public. Membership to our news/mailing list, websites and social media groups is free as is attendance at our webinars.”
