Assessment worlds colliding? Negotiating between discourses of assessment on an online open course

Hills, Laura and Hughes, Jonathan (2016). Assessment worlds colliding? Negotiating between discourses of assessment on an online open course. Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-learning, 31(2) pp. 108–115.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2016.1194747

Abstract

Using the badged open course, Taking your first steps into Higher Education, this case study examines how assessment on online open courses draws on concepts of assessment used within formal and informal learning. Our experience was that assessment used within open courses, such as massive open online courses, is primarily determined by the requirements of quality assurance processes to award a digital badge or statement of participation as well as what is technologically possible. However, this disregards much recent work in universities that use assessment in support of learning. We suggest that designers of online open courses should pay greater attention to the relationship of assessment and learning to improve participant course completion.

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• Item ORO ID
• 48268
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 1469-9958
• Keywords
• open online course; informal learning; assessment; badging; MOOC
• Academic Unit or School
• Institute of Educational Technology (IET)
  Other Departments > Centre for Inclusion and Collaborative Partnerships (CICP)
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• Research Group
• Education
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• © 2016 The Open University
• Depositing User
• Laura Hills