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Author Archives: Sally Jordan
Dé Onderwijsdagen Pre Conference : ‘Digital testing’
It has been quite a week. On Wednesday I sat on the edge of my seat in the Berrill Lecture theatre at the UK Open University waiting to see if Rosetta’s lander Philae, complete with the Ptolomy instrumentation developed by, … Continue reading
MOOCs: same or different?
Last week’s EDEN Research Workshop was thought-provoking in many ways. Incidentally, I think that was largely because of the format that discouraged long presentations and encouraged discussion and reflection. I thought this would irritate me but it didn’t. One of … Continue reading
The Unassessors
Following a small group discussion at the 8th EDEN (European Distance and E-learning Network) Research Workshop in Oxford earlier in the week, I accepted the task of standing up to represent our group in saying that our radical change would … Continue reading
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Tails wagging dogs
For those readers who are not native English speakers, I need to explain the title of this post. It refers to something that should be a minor factor becoming the important factor in decision making. In this case, I am … Continue reading
ViCE/PHEC 2014
The ‘interesting’ title of this post relates to the joint Variety in Chemistry Education/Physics Higher Education Conference that I was on my way home from a week ago. Apologies for my delay in posting, but since then I have celebrated my … Continue reading
Implications of evaluation of Formative Thresholded Assessment 1
As I said in my last post, the most powerful finding from this evaluation is the fact that many of our students, and also many of our staff, have a very poor understanding of our assessment strategies. And it is … Continue reading
Formative thresholded assessment – some evaluation findings
I haven’t said much about the Open University Science Faculty’s move to formative thresholded assessment (first introduced here), or our evaluation of it, or our next steps. So much to catch up on…There is more on all aspects in the … Continue reading
Hello again…and take care
Apologies for my lack of activity on this site in the past couple of months; paradoxically this is because I have been so busy with assessment work. So expect various thoughts in the next couple of months, as I write … Continue reading
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Why learning analytics have to be clever
I am surprised that I haven’t posted the figure below previously, but I don’t think I have. It shows the number of independent users (dark blue) and usages (light blue) on a question by question basis. So the light … Continue reading
What gets published and what people read
I doubt this will be my final ‘rant of the day’ for all time, but it will exhaust the stock of things I’m itching to say at the current time. This one relates not to the use and misuse of … Continue reading