EDUC 762 - Online Assessment - Register Today!

EDUC 762 Assessment in ELearning

Online Course 3 semester hours graduate credit

Instructor: Maggie Rouman

Tuition, Due Dates, and Registration

• Tuition is the same for Wisconsin residents, out-of-state and international students.
• There is no registration fee and no program application.

You will learn how to

• Design assessment strategies for blended and online courses.
• Evaluate, select, and manage online assessment tools.
• Detect, document, and minimize plagiarism in the blended and online classroom.
• Align Bloom’s taxonomy with learning objectives.
• Create and use rubrics to define expectations and levels of achievement.
• Efficiently increase the quality of formative and summative feedback to your students.
• Use blogs, wikis, and online surveys to assess individual and group activities.
• Share a professional e-portfolio with artifacts of your learning.

Who Should Enroll

Educators and trainers interested in using blended or fully online delivery for courses or training, or adding web-based components to enhance face-to-face instruction. Participants may include:

• Technical and community college instructors (adjunct and full-time)
• College and university professors (adjunct and full-time)
• K-12 teachers (blended classrooms and virtual schools)
• Clinical healthcare educators involved in patient education, healthcare education, continuing education or in-service education, community health education, or academic healthcare education
• Trainers in corporations, professional associations, nonprofit organizations, government, and military
• Curriculum consultants, professional development coordinators, and distance education and continuing education leaders

Description

Performance-based assessment, summative and formative feedback methods to assess student learning in the online classroom.

Enroll in the course to meet your goals for 

• professional development
• continuing education
• license renewal
• graduate credits to transfer to another university
• an elective in the Master of Science in Education online degree.

This course is an approved elective in the Master of Science in Education online degree program and is one of the required courses for individuals pursuing the Graduate Certificate in ELearning and Online Teaching.

Textbook

All readings will be provided online. There is no purchase of a textbook required.

Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate development and use of academic standards across the curriculum and application of standards and objectives in online classroom assessment and evaluation.
2. Analyze the assessment process including types of evaluations, the relationship of assessment to learning, institutional and curriculum objectives, online testing, high stakes testing, corporate assessment framework (CAF) and standardized testing.
3. Apply mapping to align assessment to learning outcomes, develop rubric criteria and select appropriate online assessment.
4. Apply current research and technology tools to create authentic assessment, discourse analysis, self and peer evaluation, rubrics, online surveys, tests and quizzes for self-paced tutorials.
5. Value fairness and adapt e-learning assessments appropriately for diverse populations of students, including students with exceptionalities.
6. Evaluate and utilize appropriate technology tools to support assessment, including blogs, wikis, audio, video, online surveys, and eportfolios.
7. Demonstrate research-based practices for choosing assessment models and apply plagiarism detection tools and support ethics, community building and team trust that help prevent cheating.

No travel to campus is required.

Participate from your home or work computer during hours that are flexible and convenient for your work and family schedule and responsibilities.

The class is highly interactive with a significant discussion component.

All discussion postings, projects, and assignments will be submitted via the course discussion board and Dropbox.

Activities are conducted according to a schedule with specific due dates each week; there are no required "live" chat sessions.

This is not a self-paced course.

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Elearning and Online Teaching Certificate

University of Wisconsin - Stout Menomonie, WI 54751

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Register Today - UW-Stout E-Learning and Online Teaching

There are only a few openings left in the courses that begin in September.  Register  Today to reserve your place:

EDUC 760 E-learning for the Online or Blended Classroom
September 16 - November 8, 2014

EDUC 762 Assessment in E-Learning
September 15 - November 7, 2014
September 29 - November 21, 2014

EDUC 763 Instructional Design for E-Learning
September 15 - November 7, 2014

Creating Collaborative Communities in E-Learning
September 22 - November 14, 2014

For those who have completed the previous four classes.
EDUC 764 E-Learning Practicum
September 15 - November 8, 2014

Take Direct action and Register Online (No registration fee)
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/register.cfm

Tuition
The university tuition for 2014-2015 is $415 per graduate credit ($1245 per reading course). No tuition is due at the time of registration. 10% is due in mid-September with the balance due in mid-October.

Seven year time limit
There is a seven year time limit to complete the five courses in the E-Learning Certificate based on the date you begin your first course. If you wish to apply the credits you earn in the e-learning certification as electives in our Master of Science in Education degree program, the same seven year time limit applies.

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I look forward to learning with you,

Dennis

Dennis O'Connor
Program Advisor
E-Learning & Online Teaching
School of Education
Online Professional Development
University of Wisconsin-Stout
Wisconsin's Polytechnic University
530-318-1145 (Cell)

UW-Stout E-Learning and (Blended) Online Teaching

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Tech Tips Newsletter: Video, Flipped Classroom, Game Based Learning

Tech Tips Newsletter August 16, 2012 Editor: Karen Franker

This e-newsletter is brought to you by University of Wisconsin-Stout School of Education. If you do not wish to receive future issues, please see instructions to manage preferences at the bottom of this message. NOTE: Web version of the newsletter http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/resources/blog.cfm Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/onlineteaching -------------------- In this issue... Top Web Tools for Creating and Curating Videos in the Flipped Classroom Program Spotlight - Final Call Instructional Design Certificate  Tech Tip: Turn Your PowerPoint 2010 Presentation into a Video New Fall Online Courses including Flipped Classroom Design Last Date to Apply for the Masters Degree Program Top Web Tools for Creating and Curating Videos This newsletter features the top educator-recommended online tools for creating and organizing videos. Explore a variety of free tools that make it easy to incorporate video in a flipped classroom. How Do You Make Your Videos? (Video 1minute:36 seconds) Katie Gimbar explains how she uses a flip cam and whiteboard to create quick and simple videos for her flipped classroom. 10 Ways to Create Videos without Installing Software Richard Byrne lists and describes his favorite Web-based tools for creating videos. 35 Sources for Curated Educational Videos Carrie Schneider has gathered a useful list of websites that take the guesswork out of locating high quality videos by desired topic. 5 Free Tools for Curating Educational Videos from Across the Web Richard Byrne describes some excellent tools for collecting and organizing playlists of educational videos. 5 Free Screen Recording Apps and Services David Andrade describes the best free screen-recording tools for creating tutorials, review sessions, and presentations. 10 Awesome Free Video Editing Tools for Teachers Med Kharbach shares a list of the best free tools for creating and editing video clips. Tech Tip: Turn Your PowerPoint 2010 Presentation into a Video To make PowerPoint 2010 presentations viewable by students who don’t have access to the software, you can save your presentation as a wmv file. Program Spotlight: Instructional Design Certificate Program http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/instructionaldesigncert.cfm Register by Monday to reserve a spot in the first ID course that begins on August 27th. Online Course Sequence: EDUC 765 Trends and Issues in Instructional Design August 27 - October 19, 2012 EDUC 766 Instructional Strategies and Assessment Methods October 22 - December 14, 2012 EDUC 767 Designing Computer-Based Training (CBT) January 7 - March 1, 2013 EDUC 768 Project Management for Instructional Development March 11 - May 3, 2013 Eight-week online courses Complete the certificate in 8 months 12 graduate credits Apply project management skills to instructional development Focus on real-world projects and build your e-portfolio to aid in job searches Includes career mentoring via LinkedIn Taught by currently practicing instructional designers Credits may be applied as electives in the Master of Science in Education graduate degree program What Our Students Say… "Within 60 days of finishing the program, I had three interviews for ID positions. I accepted and started one of the positions."~ Julie Kling, Ed.D. “"I am inspired! Then there is the part about the instructor as a person that I enjoyed... his sense of humor, attentiveness, and encouragement throughout our learning. This combination made my experience taking EDUC 765 valuable and even enjoyable." ~ Julie Zaloudek Program Director, Human Development and Family Studies New Fall Online Courses List of 2012 Online Courses  Register now to reserve a spot.  Meet your goals for continuing education professional development. No tuition is due until September 18th. A payment plan is available with 10% of tuition due at that time. Check out the new courses. Flipped Classroom Design Using Games for Learning and Assessment Math Assessment for Response to Intervention (RTI) Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) Integrating Social Media Instructional Strategies Mobile Learning Instructional Design (for iPads, tablets, and cell phones) Last Date to Apply for the Masters Degree Program Apply by August 30th for the UW-Stout Online Master of Science in Education Program UW-Stout offers a Master of Science in Education degree, entirely online, which allows you to earn a graduate degree from home on your schedule. UW-Stout’s online degree is convenient, flexible, and from a highly regarded, NCATE accredited university.   Apply and send your transcripts by August 30th. If you complete two courses each term, you will earn your degree in two years! Visit: http://www.uwstout.edu/programs/mse/ Register Online! Request Information Online School of Education Online Professional Development University of Wisconsin - Stout Phone: (715) 232-2253 Archives - back issues in case you missed the most recent newsletter.

Curation and Online Teaching

I spent 25 years in classroom as a die hard computer using k-12 teacher. A decade ago I morphed into an online teacher in the privileged position of teaching other teachers how to teach online.

From the very beginning my teaching has been about gathering and sharing information. As one who teaches inside a computer, I'm dedicated to sharing how to find, categorize and distribute information. As a long time user of social bookmarking sites like Diigo and Delicious. These great social sites help me to save a road-map of my reading.  Lately, however my attention and passion has turned to Curation using the graphically interesting and very well designed curation tool Scoop.it.

I've built three Scoop.it digital magazines that I use in my online classes:

E-Learning and Online Teaching
21st Century Information Fluency
6-Traits Resources

Scoop it provides a rich search field for my subjects of interest.  I can search and subscribe to the work of other curators. I can easily 're-scoop' articles that fit my needs. I also troll for information on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and many blogs. When I find an article that fits the needs of my students I use the handy Curation Widget to capture a summary of the article.  If I'm being disciplined I also apply tags (keywords) to the articles that will help me when I'm teaching my classes.

Let me use my E-Learning Magazine as an example of the power of tagging.  I follow (and encourage my students to become aware of) the predictions published by Educause via the Horizon 2011 report.  The trends and technologies they predict to be the most important over the next five years are.  Here are the articles I've tagged on each Horizon 2011 topic:

Learning Analytics:  http://www.scoop.it/t/e-learning-and-online-teaching?tag=analytics
Augmented Reality: http://www.scoop.it/t/e-learning-and-online-teaching?tag=augmented-reality
Games and Gaming: http://www.scoop.it/t/e-learning-and-online-teaching?tag=games
Mobile Learning: http://www.scoop.it/t/e-learning-and-online-teaching?tag=mobile
Touch and Gesture Computing: http://www.scoop.it/t/e-learning-and-online-teaching?tag=gesture-based

By tagging articles that address these topics I can quickly generate specialized pages that serve up all articles carrying a specific tab.  This means I can quickly reply to student questions with a preselected listing of current information.

As a teacher and learner, the act of curating has become an essential part of my personal learning network and ongoing professional development. By reading, evaluating, and categorizing articles from my field of interest I'm able to stay up with current developments and to better imagine what is coming in the rapidly changing fields I'm fascinated by. In many ways I'm supercharging my imagination to feed my critical and creative thinking.  It's a recursive loop of reading and sharing that keeps me both engaged an fascinated.

The Scoop.it platform has some additional advantages that attract me.  As the program advisor for the E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Program at University of Wisconsin Stout, I am responsible for marketing our courses.  Scoop.it provides me with a dashboard of re-publication options that I use to contact all of my social networking sites.  Once I've Scooped an article, I'm just a few clicks away from sending the articles and my comments to my Facebook Page, Google+ Stream, Pinterest Pages, Twitter stream, Tumblr Blog, Wordpress Blog, and Stumble Account.  The system gives me a one stop shop for the social media communications I need to keep my program scoring high in the search indexes.

Can you tell I'm a Scoop.it fan?  It's true. I've been with them since start up and find the entrepreneurs behind the site to be thoughtful and responsive to suggestions.  The seem to be adding new features every month.

If you are passionate about a topic, if you teach in an online, blended, or flipped setting I recommend you start today to build a Scoop.it archive of carefully tagged articles. If you'd like to stay notified about my work, just click Follow on any of my Scoop.it pages! You'll be glad you did!

See you online!   ~ Dennis O'Connor

Don't Lecture Me!

The flipped classroom has gotten a good deal of press.  The Khan Academy in particular has popularized the idea of flipping the lecture out of real time and placing it online in video format as homework.  This approach frees up teaching time for hands on work, group discussion and individualized tutoring. In short, it gets teachers out from behind the lectern and into direct interactions with their students. 

Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool by Emily Hanford interviews Eric Mazur a lauded master teacher of Physics at Harvard and MIT.  Mazur states that the key is to get students to do the assigned reading (the information flow) before they come to class.  He then talks about how he teaches huge classes without resorting to traditional lecture techniques.

As this article will explain, the ineffectiveness of the 'Lecture' and the realization that students learn by discussion and interaction isn't new. Mazur has been doing this for 20 years. Indeed, it has been well established that the ancient mode of lecture just isn't effective for the vast majority of students.  (Also see in this blog: Confessions of a Converted Lecturer: Eric Mazur)

Once faculty make peace with the changing role of teacher (from lecturer to coach) students learn more.  

This is a hard transition that many traditional lecturers are not willing to make. This is also reason why traditionalist lecturers have difficulty with online teaching. Far too many college instructors assume that just putting up video of their lectures along with writing assignments and tests will work. (We know it won't.)

Unlike k-12 teachers who have a deep understanding of how students learn, many college lecturers are not trained educators. Many lecturers are hired for their content expertise, not their teaching skills. They teach as they were taught, via lecture. This perpetuates a flawed method long proven to be ineffective. (For more on effectiveness of the lecture method see Twenty terrible reasons for lecturing.)

In an online environment refined teaching skills are essential. Online teachers must use the technology to personally connect with each of their students.  The remote sage on the stage just doesn't work in modern e-learning environments.  Learning comes from interaction with a community of learners and facilitators.

Online or face to face, educators must promote discussion, hands on engagement, and digital manipulation of ideas if they want more learning in their classes.

For more reporting on this topic see:  Don't Lecture Me!