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How can I use formative assessment to plan instruction and help students drive their own learning?

After an instructor grades 30 essays, fairness can become secondary to exhaustion. Rubrics provide a quicker, fairer, and more transparent grading process.

In this talk, Russell Stannard highlights a range of ways of assessing students online. From basic formative assessments through quizzes and tests to the use of E-Portfolios, Russell takes you through practical examples of how he assesses students on his online courses. A talk full of ideas looking at assessment over a range of skills including assessing speaking, writing, reading, listening as well as looking at reflection, peer and self-evaluation.

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At accrediting conference, panelists acknowledge that effort to measure learning outcomes has been a "hot mess" and that it's time for a better approach.

A few simple classroom management ideas for how rubrics can be used.

If you work in training development or performance improvement, chances are you have had a similar conversation like this before. I still confuse the two terms every now and again. Needs assessment…

In December 2014 I was privileged to have been invited to attend and give a talk at the UNESCO Chair in Education and Technology for Social Change hosted by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in…