UI&U Professor Judith McDaniel will be presenting “The Challenges
of Using Authentic Assessments in Online and Community-based Learning
Contexts” at the 17th Annual Sloan Consortium International Conference
on Online Learning. Teaming up with Jan Kempster, the dean of the Adult
Degree Program at Prescott College, they will each present different
possibilities for authentic assessment of programs that emphasize
interactive, experiential learning. McDaniel explains, “Both UI&U
and Prescott College are founded on a belief that education is about the
ability to think creatively and to interact with new knowledge as a way
of incorporating knowledge into performance, so finding an authentic
means of assessment has challenged the faculty.
Within their Applications course at UI&U, some students have
chosen to design a course that demonstrates an ability to bring the
theoretical learning into a practical application. Dr. McDaniel will
demonstrate the design of the website where students create their
courses and discuss the effectiveness of self and peer assessment in
this context.
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