Assessment Approaches for Online Learning Environments: Lesson learned from blended and online courses

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Assessment Approaches for Online Learning
Environments Lesson learned from blended and
online courses

• Praweenya SuwannatthachoteChulalongkorn
  University, Thailand
• Anirut SatimanSilpakorn University, Thailand

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• Three key components of assessments are
• Measurement of the learning objectives
• Self-assessments for students to measure their
  own achievement
• Interaction and feedback between and among the
  instructor and students

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Steinbronn, P. E. Merideth, E. M. (2008).
Perceived Utility of Methods and Instructional
Strategies Used in Online and Face-to-face
Teaching Environments. Innovative in Higher
Education. 32 265-278.
Instructional strategies and methods in the
online teaching environment Very useful and/or
useful
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Objectives

• To analyze and compare assessment techniques used
  in fully online courses and large-class blended
  learning courses and
• To propose the assessment approaches for online
  learning environments.

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The cases

• Three selected online courses from
  e-Professional certificate program under the
  Thailand Cyber University project (TCU) during
  September 2010 - March 2011.
• Two large-class blended learning courses in
  higher education institutes during June-September
  2011 (about 100 students per class).

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Online Learning Environments

• Online office hour of teacher
• Virtual classroom
• Virtual community
• Interaction and feedback
• Teacher to students
• Students to Teacher
• Students to Students

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• http//lms3.thaicyberu.go.th
• LMS Moodle

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Selected courses from e-Learning Professional
certificate program

• e-Learning Teacher
• e-Learning Courseware Designer
• e-Learning Project Manager

• Monitoring e-Classroom
• Designing Effective Website for e-Learning
• e-Learning Project Management

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Similarity of assessment approach

• Learning assessment
• What can assessment for learning look like in
  OLEs?
• Question and answer
• Group discussion
• Students self-reflection log
• Collaborative work with Wiki
• Learning evaluation
• Summative evaluation
• Survey
• Open-ended questions

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Strategies to build up virtual community lessons
from 3 courses

• Share students own profile
• Share ideas and works
• Discuss and find the similarity of students
  background
• Give comments to others
• gtgtgt Peer Assessment

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• The fully online courses that based on social
  constructivism learning approach developed the
  virtual learning community and gained more
  learner-learner and instructor-learner
  interaction.

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The large class

• Purposive samples
• 2726207 ED TECH INFO at Faculty of Education,
  Chulalongkorn University 2 sections (200
  students)
• 468102 Computer for Education
• at Faculty of Education, Silpakorn University

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Teaching large-class with blended learning

• Class discussion board
• Group discussion board
• Online quiz
• Students blog

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Peer assessment became one of significant
assessment technique to improve learners
understanding for both blended and online courses.
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Suggestions
Assessment approaches for online courses

• Self-assessment should be a major component of
  online courses.
• Online instructor should design the learning
  activity that provide students to assess
  themselves.

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Suggestions
Assessment approaches for the large class OLEs

• The large-class should add more online tests or
  quizzes as an effective self-test for students.
• The large-class blended learning course should
  focus more on portfolio assessment.

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Thank You

• Question and Answer