Embedding Assessment In Course Design & Assessing Online Learning Tools for Detecting Exam Plagiarism WITHOUT Proctors Edward Gehringer, Mounika Bachu, and Guoyi Wang (North Carolina State University, USA) With unproctored exams, cheating is a risk. Proctoring software (webcam based, etc.) can be used, but it’s not perfect. Another way to detect cheating is to compare […]
Feedback As A Learning Tool & Recent Research In Distance Learning Assessment for Learning (AFL) Mordechai Miron (University of Tel Aviv, Israel) “Assessment for Learning (AFL) ” refers to all those activities undertaken by teachers and by their students in assessing themselves, which provide information to be used as feedback to modify the teaching and […]
Engaging Students Online An Act of Juggling: The Challenge of Sustainable Assessment in an Overloaded Academic Role Denise Wood (Charles Sturt University, Australia) Assessment provides evidence of transformative change in student knowledge and skills. Currently, the pressure to design and implement a planned, cohesive approach to assessment across a curriculum is clear. The implementation of […]
Adapting Courses for Online Delivery 2 The Covid 19 Pivot in a Psychology Research Lab Class: A Social Distancing Attitudes Experiment Sandra Webster (Westminster College, USA) The COVID-19 pandemic caused a pivot from face-to-face student research team projects to a unified, team-based remote class experiment. The new experiment tested the effects of priming on college students’ […]
Adapting Courses for Online Delivery 1 The Mutual Relations between Evaluation Methods and Learning Outcomes in Academia. Nitza Davidovitch and Ruth Dorot (Ariel University, Israel) This presentation discusses the paradigmatic change in higher education from content-centered to learning-centered academic programs. Motivated by the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) movement, this change imposes new success […]
Engaging Students Online How Students (and Teachers) Can Easily Create Educational Videos Sigal Tifferet (Ruppin Academic Center, Israel) In this paper, I will explain how to make videos using the free version of Biteable. Biteable allows creating professional videos in less than an hour, using existing templates and photos. Thus students are able to make a […]
Toward Sustainable Assessment Academic-Industry Collaborative Lifecycle to Support Work-Integrated Learning. Simi Kamini Bajaj (Western Sydney University, Australia) Work-integrated learning (WIL) refers to student learning through industry engagement to bridge the gap between theory and practice-of-work. The aim is to develop professional capabilities to prepare students for professional workplace environment. WIL has its learning benefits apart […]
Feedback As A Learning Tool: Promoting Student Enthusiasm and Improvement in Online Instruction through Effective Assessment and Feedback. Clifford Tyler and Terry Bustillos (National University, USA) Learning and assessment are academic and social processes that take place in interactions between students and instructors in face-to-face classrooms. This paper will examine the potential benefits of creating […]
Assessing Online Learning/Assessment In Course Design: Resetting SET to the Goals of Higher Education: Quality Teaching or Learning? Mieke Clement and Herman Buelens (University of Leuven, Belgium) Like many universities, ours assesses the quality of faculty teaching with “Student Evaluation of Teaching” questionnaires. We studied the relationship of our SET-dimensions with two criteria: (1) overall […]
Intercultural Reflection on Teaching: Guidelines and Experiences Supporting the Professional Development of Higher Education Teachers Fiona Dalziel, Alessio Surian, Fulvio Biddau, and Anna Serbati (University of Padua, Italy) This presentation focuses on training higher education (HE) teachers in using the innovative methods for reflection on teaching developed by the Erasmus+ IntRef project (Intercultural Reflection on […]
