article thumbnail

Assessment in the digital age

Learning with e's

Image from JISC publication This table is very useful summary for anyone who is interested in aligning assessment with teaching methods. It's important that this is achieved, because as Biggs and Tang (2011) argue, students create their own meaning from their experiences, by seeking out learning engagement. Unported License.

article thumbnail

What is authentic assessment?

Learning with e's

It's important because it shows that assessment drives they way we teach. This is a simple principle of pedagogy known as constructive alignment (Biggs and Tang, 2011) where we start with outcomes that students need to achieve, support these with appropriate pedagogy, and then assess accordingly (Biggs, 2014). Unported License.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Video for learning: Today and tomorrow

Learning with e's

We recorded micro-teaches - usually a 10 minute lesson - and then played back the footage to the students so they could see and hear themselves and learn from the experience. 2011) Physics of the future, London: Penguin Books. Unported License. I wrote about other examples of the power of educational video in a previous post.

Video 74
article thumbnail

Theories for the digital age: Paragogy

Learning with e's

Highlighting the fast paced nature of the web, Thomas and Seely-Brown (2011) suggest that peer learning can be both timely yet transient. This is due to the challenge that ‘students teaching themselves’ might pose to the privileged knowledge and power structures many formal educational institutions continue to hold in such high regard.

Theory 96
article thumbnail

Teacher or educator?

Learning with e's

Not everyone is cut out to be a professional educator, but anyone can teach and most of us do exactly that, just about every day. That's the difference between education and teaching, and it is why, although there are 7 billion teachers in the world, only a very few ever go on to become skilled educators. Unported License.

Education 111
article thumbnail

Communication and learning in a digital age

Learning with e's

Since February 2011 the group ECO (Education and Communication), driven by teachers of Information and Communication Studies at UOC, has been providing a forum for researching communication and learning, and for sharing teaching innovation through e-learning environments based on collaboration, creativity, entertainment and audiovisual technologies.

article thumbnail

Teacher Voices: Lloyd Chilcott

Learning with e's

Finding out what former students are doing now they are qualified, is one of the joys of teaching. Lloyd Chilcott studied a BEd degree (specialising in ICT) at Plymouth between 2011 and 2015, achieving first degree honours and a dissertation award. 7) What is your favourite story or memory of teaching children you would like to share?

Voice 75