Assessing online learning / Patricia Comeaux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Comeaux, Patricia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Distance education--United States--Evaluation--Case studies.

Distance education.

Educational technology--United States--Evaluation--Case studies.

Educational technology.

Community colleges.

Evaluation.

United States.

Community colleges--United States--Evaluation--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bolton, MA : Anker Pub. Co., [2005]

Summary:

"Assessing Online Learning" offers an assortment of tools and strategies for evaluating learning and instructional design in online classrooms. Conceptual and pragmatic, this book addresses the salient issues of assessment and offers a variety of assessment tools and strategies for online classrooms and programs, such as self-assessment tools for students to evaluate their progress toward their final products, instruments in which teams can evaluate their progress and contributions, and specific tools and strategies for assessing students' critical thinking and writing skills in electronic discussion boards and in similar reflective writing environments. With its multidisciplinary, comprehensive approach, this book will be of interest to faculty, administrators, scholars, and researchers in higher education, and to anyone interested in the particular needs and challenges of assessment in online instruction and its integral role in learning.

Contents:

Assessment is on the line in community colleges / Margot Perez-Greene

Designing and managing student assessment in an online learning environment / Mahnaz Moallem

Team assessment guidelines: a case study of collaborative learning in design / Karen Belfer, Ron Wakkary

Online collaborative assessment: unpacking process and product / Bruce Burnett, Alan Roberts

Using virtual learning modules to enhance and assess students' critical thinking and writing skills / David Hofmeister, Matt Thomas

Developing and implementing a model for assessing collaborative e-learning: processes and products / Marianna Sigala

Enriching online assessment using interactive digital video / Tony Hall ... [et al.]

Assessment practices in an online lecture-based course and a seminar-based course: notable differences / Ele McKenna-Byington

Online teaching and learning: assessing academic library skills / Marina Orsini-Jones

Computer-mediated communication as an instructional learning tool: a course evaluation / Bolanle A. Olaniran.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-170) and index.

ISBN:

1882982770

OCLC:

55624858