Month: May 2020
Engaged Online Teaching and Time Management Because technology is often associated with flexibility and fast time, this can lead to assumptions that online learning is faster and better. Institutions need to provide education in ways that fit with the lives of individual learners, and that means restructuring teaching time in flexible and personalised ways. A […]
My pedagogy 19 words submitted in total. Your words were: engaged 5% multimodal 5% authentic 5% I thought this was a lovely activity to end the course with! I think my cohort had the bad luck to be disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak, so not as many made it to the end, but I know the current and future […]
As the course leaders say, it is no good coming up with creative and inventive assessment ideas if we don’t have, or can’t use, the technology to implement them. I was interested to see these screenshots of assessment options available in the edX platform, and particular that there was an option for inputting Maths expressions: […]
It’s time to reflect and review this part of the course. We are asked: Consider how the feedback that has been provided so far in this programme lends itself to a particular kind of assessment. Consider how a misalignment with feedback and assessment might impact transactional distance. How would you assess what we have done […]
It is apparently time to review what ‘transactional distance’ means: Wikipedia tells us: Transactional distance theory was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Michael G. Moore, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Education at the Pennsylvania State University. InstructionalDesign.org tells us: The theory of Transactional Distance states that as the level of interaction between teacher and learner […]
In my case, apparently it’s only possible to write far too much. However, if I were writing a how-to guide or manual, I know I should be making it as short and to the point as possible. In some cases, the same point could be made of assessments. A word count is not a very […]
Building exceptional learning experiences Rather tn merely measuring performance, we should use a variety of assessment forms, including multimedia and interactive formats, to focus academic development and course design around building exceptional learning experiences. We want to encourage the students to develop masterful levels of knowledge and practice, while remaining engaged with their learning communities. […]
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