Podcasts and Assessment and Evaluation

This podcast features a 9 minute interview with Barbara J. Hoskins, Assistant Dean for the College of Health, Education & Human Development at Clemson University. In this conversation, recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Southeast Regional Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, Dean Hoskins discusses the session she presented at the conference entitled, "Effective Online Program Models from Faculty and Student Perspectives".

From the session description:

With online learning, we have moved beyond the early adopter phase and find ourselves seeking effective models and best practices to ensure we are delivering a quality educational opportunity. This presentation will identify nationally accepted criteria for effective online programs and evaluate the success of delivery models from all viewpoints.

In this 43-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Kaye Bragg and Penelope Swenson in a session entitled Two Questions That Promote In-Depth Course Assessment. They offer a plan for online and hybrid couse assessment that starts with two nonthreatening questions.

In this 40-minute recording, we'll hear from Mary Lee in a session entitled Formative and Competency-Based Assessment of Learners in a Longitudinal Curriculum. Taking examples from medical education, she explains a longitudinal approach to teaching and learning - building on knowledge, skills, and attitudes over time using an effective blend of formative and competency-based assessment tools.

For ELI's upcoming fall focus session on the role of assessment in supporting teaching and learning with technology, I interviewed Dr. Marilee Bresciani, Associate Professor of Postsecondary Education Leadership at San Diego State University.

In the interview, Dr. Bresciani defines outcomes-based assessment and shares her views on its application to teaching and learning with technology. Dr. Bresciani also discusses the keys for designing and implementing outcomes-based assessment for a given institution.

If you're interested in learning more about outcomes-based assessment, please see Dr. Bresciani's ELI Web Symposium presentation, How Do You Know What Your Students Are Learning?

Look for the proceedings from the ELI 2006 Fall Focus Session, Supporting Learning with Technology: Assessment's Role, via the focus session Web site. The proceedings should be available by the end of September.

Peggy Maki, former Senior Scholar and Director of Assessment at the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), will conduct an ELI Web seminar on Sept. 15, 2006, regarding assessing student learning in technology-based learning environments.

However, Dr. Maki's work is also relevant to the ELI 2006 Fall Focus Session, Supporting Learning with Technology: Assessment's Role, which will be held from Sept. 11-12, 2006. To make sure focus session participants have the opportunity to benefit from her thinking on this topic, Dr. Maki kindly agreed to participate in the attached audio interview.

For more information about Dr. Maki's upcoming ELI Web seminar, please visit the event page at http://www.educause.edu/eliweb069. Look for the proceedings from the ELI 2006 Fall Focus Session at http://www.educause.edu/eli063.