EASiHE Gary Wills Bill Warburton Lester Gilbert E-Assessment in Higher Education A JISC project in Institutional Innovation

2/18 The brief  Address institutional change by engaging academics and students in co-design and co-deployment.  Place the quality of student learning as the first objective.  Implement an open source 1 solution to institutional e-assessment.  Integrate open standards 1 services currently available within the JISC eFramework. The project addresses technical and institutional issues in formative e-assessment by deploying the EdSpace repository and integrating a variety of JISC-funded project tools and standards. 1 Koper, R. (2008). Open Source and Open Standards. In J. M. Spector, M. Merrill, J. van Merriënboer & M. P. Driscol (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology (3rd ed.). New York: Routledge.

3/18 Formative e-Assessments

4/18 EdShare

5/18 Quality metrics

6/18 Interoperable, accessible, mobile

7/18 ‘New’ e-assessment

8/18 Existing assets

9/18 Web 2.0

10/18 Duration & staffing  Duration Start October 2008, fully funded 18 months From March 2010, institutionally funded 12 months  Project staff Onjira Sitthisak, Project Manager Susan Walters, Research Fellow David Bacigalupo, Research Fellow Bart Nagel, Research Assistant Pei Zhang, Research Assistant Steve Bennett, Veronica Gale, Consultants

11/18 Investigators  Management group Dr Gary Wills, ECS, PI Dr Bill Warburton, iSolutions, CAA Officer Lester Gilbert, ECS  Steering group Management group, plus: Dr Richard Crowder, ECS Exams officer Dr Hugh Davis, UoS Director of eLearning Dr Ian Giles, LATEU Director Dr Pete Hancock, iSolutions, Core Mission Engagement Manager

12/18 Collaborating projects  EdSpace / EdShare (Dr Hugh Davis, ECS)  AQuRate (Dr Graham Alsop, Kingston)  Faroes (Dr Dave Millard, ECS)  LexDis (Dr Mike Wald, ECS)  MCQFM (Dr Steve Bennett, Univ. Hertfordshire)  mPLAT (Dr Dave Millard, ECS)  Peer Pigeon (Dr Dave Millard, ECS)  Question Mark (John Kleeman)  Macfob (Dr Mike Wald, ECS)

13/18 Schedule

14/18 Tasks (first 6 months)  M1-2 Co-design Technical and cultural & institutional requirements for change Processes and information Identify schools which will participate (initial targets include Medicine, Law, and Mathematics, later Electronics and Computer Science, Engineering, Geography, and Psychology)  M3-6 Technical team: prototype EASiHE repository, integrate services, tools, and standards  M3-6 Institutional team: engage with senior management, selected Schools, students, and other communities  M6 Review

15/18 Tasks (second 6 months)  M7-8 Co-deployment. Selected users (staff and students) supported (technical team) and educated (institutional team) (facilitated by consultancy)  M9 Evaluation  M10-12 Technical team: Adjustments and enhancements  M10-12 Institutional team: Support culture and practice changes, prepare for larger-scale deployment  M12 Review

16/18 Tasks (after 12 months)  M13-16 Co-deployment. Six Schools, Semester 1, supported (technical team and institutional team). Document emerging practice (facilitated by consultancy).  M17 Evaluation  M18 Review  M19-30 Embedding. EASiHE embedded within the University infrastructure, made available to all Schools.

17/18 Deliverables  EASiHE repository and services  Documentation on pedagogical design of e-assessments and on e-assessment management policies  Dissemination materials & reports, including co-design and co- deployment, institutional change, & exemplary practice  Project Web site, blog, & wiki  Final project report  Journal & conference papers on re-use of e-Framework services, incorporation of MathQTI, student experience of EASiHE, institutional change, & benefits of Web 2.0

18/18 Thank you! Questions, comments, discussion…