Emergency Toolkit: Can you hear me now? Audio Feedback. Formative and Summative Assessment Ideas

Emergency Toolkit: Audio Feedback. Formative and Summative Assessment Ideas -------------------- In this issue... 1. Register for a Fall Online Course 2. Creating Audio Feedback 3. Tech Tip: Using Vocaroo to Make Voice Recordings Registration is Open for Fall Online Courses Meet your professional development goals for continuing education, license renewal or advanced certification. List of Online Courses with Openings Register Online  Edutopia: Formative Assessment in Distance Learning by Andrew Miller Schools are closed but schooling goes on, and it remains crucial that teachers find ways to see what students are learning. Creating Effective Audio Feedback Explore the benefits of incorporating audio feedback to build stronger instructor-learner connections. Discover free audio tools that quickly record comments-- often in less time than it takes to write them. ‘Speaking to Students’ with Audio Feedback Debbie Morrison explains how to use a voice recorder app and Evernote to provide meaningful and useful feedback.   Using Asynchronous Audio Feedback to Enhance Teaching Presence and Students’ Sense of Community(PDF) Philip Ice and others share results of a study which found that students who received audio feedback “overwhelmingly” preferred audio over written feedback, and felt it increased perceptions of instructor caring as well as the sense of involvement in the course.   Audio- the Personal Touch in Online Courses Alastair Creelman reports on a study by Cavanaugh and Song which found that students in a composition course were more positive about receiving audio versus written feedback. Instructors tended to provide more global commentary via audio and more local commentary via written feedback.   Teacher’s Visual Guide on Giving Audio Feedback to Students on Google Drive Med Kharbach provides the steps to add audio comments to any Google document.   Kaizena Adds Support for Giving Audio Feedback on Google Presentations Richard Byrne describes how the Kaizena tool embedded in Google Drive allows instructors to add audio comments to Google presentations.   Tech Tip: Using Vocaroo to Make Voice Recordings  (video 2:41 minutes) YouTube This shows how to use the free Web-based recording tool Vocaroo to create audio recordings and export hyperlinked files, QR codes, MP3, or WAV files.     List of Online Courses Register Online! Request Information Online  School of Education Online Professional Development University of Wisconsin - Stout Phone: (530) 318-1145 University of Wisconsin-Stout | College of Education, Health and Human Sciences 712 South Broadway Street, Menomonie, WI 54751 | Phone: 715-232-2253

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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The School of Education reserves the right to cancel classes that do not meet minimum enrollment requirements.

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Contact Us: Dennis O'Connor, Program Advisor

Elearning and Online Teaching Certificate

University of Wisconsin - Stout Menomonie, WI 54751

Phone: (530) 318-1145

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