Making Assessment Count (MAC)
Friday 3rd Feb – 1-2pm
Presenters: Professor Peter Chatterton (Daedalus e-World Ltd) and Professor Gunter Saunders (University of Westminster)
The objective of Making Assessment Count is primarily to help students engage more closely with the assessment process, either at the stage where they are addressing an assignment or at the stage when they receive feedback on a completed assignment. In addition an underlying theme of MAC is to use technology to help connect student reflections on their assessment with their tutors. To facilitate the reflection aspect of MAC a web based tool called e-Reflect is often used. This tool enables the authoring of self-review questionnaires by tutors for students. On completion of an e-Reflect questionnaire a report is generated for the student containing responses that are linked to the options the student selected on the questionnaire.
The session will provide an overview of MAC and highlight some of the variant MAC processes that are being developed by six different universities, as well as drawing out strengths and weaknesses of MAC. There will be a demonstration of how the e-Reflect tool works but the presenters will also show how MAC can work without that tool. Participants will be engaged by seeking their views on the affordances offered by MAC as well as their input into identifying barriers and enablers in applying MAC in their own institutional and subject contexts.
This is a free event.
To register go to http://jiscmac.eventbrite.co.uk/. You will be sent the joining instructions and session link.
Blackboard Collaborate - information for participants
- The webinars will be run in Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate Live!)
- Participants will need to have the latest version of Java installed on their PC/Laptop - check settings here:http://tinyurl.com/6bacwu4
- You will need speakers or headphones to listen to the session. We recommend a headset with microphone to enable you to talk in the session. Using built-in microphones can create echoing/feedback so not recommended.
- Download a participant's guide to Blackboard Collaborate
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