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    Assessment Strategies for Online Learning: Engagement and Authenticity
    Assessment Strategies for Online Learning: Engagement and Authenticity
    Assessment Strategies for Online Learning: Engagement and Authenticity
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    Assessment Strategies for Online Learning: Engagement and Authenticity

    By Dianne Conrad and Jason Openo

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    For many learners assessment conjures up visions of red pens scrawling percentages in the top right-hand corner of exams and feelings of stress, inadequacy, and failure. Although negative student reactions to evaluation have been noted, assessment has provided educational institutions with important information about learning outcomes and the quality of education for many decades. But how accurate is this data and has it informed practice or been fully incorporated into the learning cycle? Conrad and Open argue that the potential in many of the new learning environments to alter and improve assesment has yet to be explored by educators and students.

    In their investigation of assessment methods and learning approaches, Conrad and Openo aim to explore assessment that engages learners and authentically evaluates education. They insist that moving to new learning environments, specifically those online and at a distance, afford educators opportunities to embrace only the most effective face-to-face assessment methods and to realize the potential of delivering education in the digital age. In this volume practitioners will find not only an indispensable introduction to new forms of assessment but also a number of best practices as described by experienced educators.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAthabasca University Press
    Release dateJul 15, 2018
    ISBN9781771992336
    Assessment Strategies for Online Learning: Engagement and Authenticity
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    Dianne Conrad

    Dianne Conrad spent thirty-three years teaching and researching, most recently at Athabasca University in the Centre for Distance Education. She is the co-editor of the International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning and is an editorial board member of several international journals. Her research interests include adult and distance education, online learning, and prior learning assessment and recognition.

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