Creative Assessment – what is it?

Creative Assessment – what is it?

by amiddlet50

| Academic innovation, Academic Innovation and Possibilities, Assessment, Assessment & Feedback, blogging, creativity, learner engagement, Media-enhanced feedback, Media-enhanced learning, MELSIG, social media for learning, Syndicated
December 15, 2023

In higher education assessment is recognised as a driving force for student engagement and curriculum design. How does this tally with a desire for active student-centred learning? How can it accommodate the artistry in the academic practitioner who seeks to … Continue reading ?
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Being smarter than AI – rethinking our assessment design?

by amiddlet50

| Academic Innovation and Possibilities, academic integrity, active learning, agency, AI, Assessment, Assessment & Feedback, assessment literacy, authentic assessment, authentic learning, case-based learning, ChatGPT, creativity, currency, deduction, enquiry-based learning, inquiry, Inquiry Based Learning, nergotiated learning, open-ended, pbl, personaisation, problem-based learning, project-based learning, smart assessment, social, student-centred, Syndicated
January 31, 2023

The discussion channels used by educational developers have been dominated by the topic of ChatGPT since the New Year. There are two dimensions to this: concerns over academic integrity and the opportunity ChatGPT and other AI tools bring to assessment. … Continue reading ?
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Community of Enhancement

by amiddlet50

| Academic innovation, Academic Innovation and Possibilities, active learning, co-creation, Co-operative pedagogy, Communities of Enhancement, Community of Practice, Digital Placemaking, network, networked authorship, Syndicated, toolkits
November 23, 2021

I keep returning to the phrase Community of Enhancement to describe my philosophy behind my staff development role. It is not astounding but, significantly for me, it is a better than Community of Practice. It reflects and models the ethos … Continue reading ?
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Photopedagogy and photovoice

by amiddlet50

| Academic innovation, Academic Innovation and Possibilities, active learning, agency, audio, audio-enhanced learning, belonging, BYOD4L, capture, co-production, community, connectivity, creativity, Digital Placemaking, learner engagement, learner gatherer, learning ecologies, learning ecology, Learning Space and Place, location, Media-enhanced learning, mobile learning, photo elicitation, photograph, photography, photomontage, photopedagogy, photovoice, place, portfolio, screen-based learning, Smart Learning & BYOD, smartphone, social media for learning, Syndicated, ubiquitous technolous, user producer
August 14, 2021

Loopmans et al. (2012) observe that photographs incite public debate about place and community. When that public context is the university course and where there is a desire for learning engagement and community building, how can photography empower the learner? … Continue reading ?
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Simulation – storyboarding and paper prototyping #activelearning

by amiddlet50

| Academic Innovation and Possibilities, active learning, paper prototype, prototyping, role play, simulation, storyboarding, Syndicated
June 14, 2021

Photo by Matt Popovich on Unsplash Educational simulation is an interesting and, in my view, underutilised area of active learning. Often associated with technology-based approaches, educational simulation is in fact a broader field. In this broad sense it creates a … Continue reading ?
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