Traditional marking of students’ work struggles to assess creativity and high-order thinking skills reliably. A recent technological innovation, called Adaptive Comparative Judgement (ACJ), potentially offers a solution to this. ACJ is based not on atomistic mark schemes but on holistic expert judgements of pairs of students’ work. The outcomes of many such pairings are usedRead more
Manchester, 21/9/11 This was attended by 91 users, many from UK HE, but including schools, colleges and exam boards. A straw poll indicated a roughly 50:50 split between those institutions using Originality Checking as a formative tool for the iterative refinement of coursework (mainly new universities and colleges) and those using it as a summativeRead more
As the availability of the ReVIEW automated lecture capture service increases to cover the whole campus, new applications are being found, by support services as well as academic colleagues. The International Office have started to use ReVIEW (and the Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing service) in interesting ways, supporting their network of agents as well asRead more
Today the Library is hosting its first Showcase event aimed at staff, with a range of stands covering the many services the Library itself provides as well as other support departments across campus that support research and teaching. These include the Careers & Employability Centre, Centre for Engineering and Design Education, Facilities Management, Imago, ITRead more
Attention Turningpoint electronic voting system users! There’s a call for proposals to the first Turning Technologies European User Conference. The call says: “We are currently looking for individuals interested in becoming breakout session presenters at the conference. Share your best practices and insights regarding Turning Technologies’ response technology. If your proposal is accepted, your conferenceRead more
JISC have just launched at ALT-C 2011 their latest e-learning guide entitled Emerging Practice in a Digital Age: A guide to technology-enhanced institutional innovation . The report, with 10 case-studies from across UK HE, can be found at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/digiemerge . Required reading for anyone involved in e-learning in UK HE. I particularly like the quotationRead more
It’s ALT-C 2011 at the moment in Leeds, the main annual conference on the use of learning technologies in Higher Education. I can’t be there this year, although a number of Lboro colleagues are attending; but I have been making use of the live online presence at http://altc2011.alt.ac.uk/pages/alt_live . This includes conference presentations delivered using Adobe Connect, asRead more