Category: Example assessments

Time to dispense with the ‘fast food’ model of education

26th May 2010

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Compelling viewing ( … and thankfully no reference to the Paul McCartney example which is wearing a little thin). Do what you love to do, says Robinson, as education has to feed the spirit. A standardised model of education that makes students do things they do not want to do, by implication, impoverishes the spirit just as the standard fare served up at fast food restaurants is depleting physical well being. Personalising education, he argues, by customising a curriculum to cater for individual interests, will foster the diversity of talents that communities need.

Stirring stuff, and feasible with the appropriate harnessing of technology, but not before a radical rethink about what it means to go to school. This requires disruptive innovation to take hold.

Online conference on assessment in the digital age

24th February 2007

Came across an ad for this conference today on the IFETS listserv. Looks like it will be interesting if the keynotes are anything to go by. It is being organised in conjunction with the Re-engineering Assessment Practices (REAP) project, a GBP1m initiative funded by the Scottish Funding Council under its e-Learning Transformation initiative. The focus is on assessment for learning in tertiary education, and there are three themes to be addressed via the keynotes, case studies and asynchronous discussions:
* Assessment and the first year experience
* Great designs for assessment
* Institutional strategies (designs) for assessment