| Academic staff considering changing lecture based courses to electronic or blended mode formats often run into difficulties when considering how to convert and adapt assessment tasks for on-line delivery. Often they have limited ideas regarding the potential of electronic submission, assessment or feedback.
Delivering a course using virtual learning environments (VLEs) such as WebCT or Moodle, require a different way of thinking with regard to how assessments can be submitted. Sometimes academics feel fettered with what is available in their VLE, either because of an inability to think outside their box of experience, or because the VLE simply does not provide what they want. Sometimes this can be overcome by seeing examples/case studies of what others have done with the VLE facilities, on other occasions it needs complimentary software to supplement the course.
This project seeks to trawl the diversity of e-assessment, identify examples of good practice (considering how formative and summative e-assessments can be designed to support students achieve learning outcomes) and try to promote these items of good practice. At this stage of our trawl no form of electronic submission or assessment is barred all ideas are potentially worth following up, please tell us what you and your colleagues are doing.
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