1. Assessment Practices in Digital Learning Environments
Geoffrey Crisp
Dean Learning and Teaching, RMIT
ALTC National Teaching Fellow

2. Acknowledgements http://www.transformingassessment.com Shamim Joarder
Mathew Hillier
Mathew Hillier
Shamim Joarder

3. 21st century employability skills
Table 1. Example of 21st century employability skills (adapted from content by Ripley, 2010)
21st century employability skills
Ways of thinking
Creativity and innovation; critical thinking, problem solving; learning to learn, metacognition
Ways of working
Communication; collaboration (teamwork)
Tools for working
Information literacy; ICT literacy
Living in the world
Citizenship – local and global; life and career; personal, social responsibility

4. Learning and assessment
Employers are expecting graduates to be able to perform appropriately in proactive, task-directed ways where they implement their discipline specific knowledge in a context that involves many stakeholders
Universities are often concerned with students mastering the conceptual understanding of core discipline principles and applying these to artificially constructed tasks designed for assessments that can be easily delivered and marked

5. Effective student learning and assessment
Web 2
Teachers
educational technologies including MyUni, MyMedia, textbook publisher resources
new low threshold application (LTA) technologies including Adobe Presenter, voice tools, e-portfolios, digital tablets and whiteboards
MyUni’s assessment (diagnostic, formative), self & peer review, assignment, MyGrades,
MyMedia – recording of lectures and auto upload into MyUniM
Publishers have test banks, interactive content that can be imported into MyUni

6. Jmol: Open-source Java viewer for chemical structures in 3D

7. Interactive tools for assessment

8. Second Life examples

9. Second Life examples - Sloodle

10. Second Life examples - QuizHUD

11. Augmented reality examples

12. Augmented reality examples
Physical hardware can be connected to the Internet
Students can use the equipment 24/7 thus increasing use time

13. Augmented reality examples

14. Augmented reality examples
Music – drum sequences
Music – band / instruments
Engineering exploded models

15. Scenario based learning - SBLi
Timer
Clickable Image Part
Location Window
Action Window
Environment Window
Configurable by Teachers
Question Release date
Question Feedback Release date
Moodle Compatible
Maximum Attempt Number
Content Window

16. Serious Games

17. Rethinking curriculum design
We need to rethink our curriculum design so that it facilitates both the development and assessment of discipline skills and capabilities, as well as the application of these skills and capabilities in an authentic environment
educational technologies including MyUni, MyMedia, textbook publisher resources
new low threshold application (LTA) technologies including Adobe Presenter, voice tools, e-portfolios, digital tablets and whiteboards
MyUni’s assessment (diagnostic, formative), self & peer review, assignment, MyGrades,
MyMedia – recording of lectures and auto upload into MyUniM
Publishers have test banks, interactive content that can be imported into MyUni