Assessment Tool:
- There is a unique online
assessment tool available where you can create a survey
and get the results in a database format, readable in
Excel or other database/spreadsheet programs. This
service is a result of a collaboration with the
Kapi'olani
Community College MOO.
When you go to the MOO homepage, be sure to click on
Applications and then Click on Creating Surveys. You can
also conduct anonymous surveys through the WebCT Quiz and
Survey Tool if you have a WebCT course and designer
privileges.
Rationale:
- Webbed classroom tools of
assessment are a key ingredient to improved course design
and successful student learning. When the online teacher
assesses learning in the webbed classroom, she is likely
to use classroom research techniques adapted to the
online environment. For instance, survey tools and
threaded forum discussions, that allow anonymous posting,
replace the one minute question using anonymous feedback
that is often advocated in the traditional classroom
assessment.
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- Faculty developing the
courses and curricula that integrate information
technology and authentic assessment need to experiment
with the tools that are emerging in computer mediated
environments. Faculty need to be able to understand,
manipulate and manage their technology rich course work
for students, not just manage. The significance of this
management issue for faculty is paramount and is really
an intuitive concept; in order for faculty to improve
their own teaching using computers, teachers need to be
trained themselves, and consequently, use what they have
practiced in their own new ways of teaching. Teachers are
the essential ingredient to increasing the use and
effectiveness of technology in education, yet the goal of
improved teacher training proves difficult for several
reasons.
- We should assess our
students: Who are they? Are they ready for online
learning? What could be done to get them ready if they
are not yet ready? What problems might they have learning
the course materials? What support might they need and
how can they be moved to seek help if they need
it?
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