Online assessment and feedback is the process used to measure certain aspects of student learning, where the assessment is delivered via a computer connected to a network, and/or, feedback on students' performance in assessment is delviered via an online system.
Essay preparation: Self-test for literature comprehension is intended to prepare students to write an essay. It uses the BlackBoard (Bb) self-assessment functionality to include readings followed by questions of various types. These are graded and, most importantly, clear feedback is provided showing how the readings should have been comprehended.
Trades education lends itself to “learning on the job” and the “Flipping the Trades” project focuses on re-designing courses to make them more flexible and allow students to learn and be assessed in their place of work.
The student cohort in the common core course, Business Computing 1, is very large (approx. 1000), with a wide variance of prior experience.
Professional Scientist is currently delivered in a face-to-face format to local students.
The course needed to be modified so that it can be made available in a fully online version for OUA using video resources, online collaboration tools and with educational technology.
