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Category: <span>Alternative Assessment</span>

Designing Assessments for Hybrid Teaching (5 min)

Reading Time: < 1 minute Prof. Velda McCune and Dr. Tim Fawns discuss designing assessments for hybrid teaching. The topics and ideas in this conversation are informed by the additional work of Jen Ross, co-director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education, Gill Aitken Programme Director for the PG Cert/PG Dip/MSc Clinical Education and …

Preparing Assessments for Semester 1 (5 min)

Reading Time: < 1 minute Prof. Velda McCune and Dr. Tim Fawns discuss preparing assessments for students in different time zones for Semester 1. Prof. Velda McCune and Dr. Tim Fawns discuss designing assessments for hybrid teaching. The topics and ideas in this conversation are informed by the additional work of Jen Ross, co-director of …

Get to Know Your Students and Let Them Get to Know You (3 min)

Reading Time: < 1 minute Prof. Velda McCune and Dr. Tim Fawns discuss the importance of getting to know your students and having them get to you know you in the wider context of assessments in a hybrid learning environment. Prof. Velda McCune and Dr. Tim Fawns discuss designing assessments for hybrid teaching. The topics …

Things to think about for open book and at-home exams

Reading Time: < 1 minute In this post, Jenna Mann, Academic Developer at the Institute for Academic Development, gives students practical and effective advice on taking open-book exams at home. Things to think about for open book and at-home exams Jul 14, 2020

Effect of remote exams on performance in applied knowledge assessments in Edinburgh MBChB 2020

Reading Time: < 1 minute In this post, David Kluth, Director of Teaching MBChB, Colin Duncan, Year 5 Director, Karen Fairhurst, Year 5 Director and Alan Jaap, Assessment Lead MBChB, discuss the effects of remote exams on performance in applied knowledge assessments in the Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBChB) degree Effect of remote exams …

Students using Xerte to create open educational resources

Reading Time: < 1 minute In this post, Alison Christie and Brendan Owers describe how Xerte, a rapid content authoring tool, was used by students as part of a group assignment on the online Masters of Public Health programme.  Students using Xerte to create open educational resources     Image Credit: University of Edinburgh Collections Catalogue No. 0007861. …

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