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Re: Tinkering, Playing, and Learning

nilspeterson — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:09:49 -0000

I agree, we don't need more technology, we need other elements of the system to change. If we are moving from educating Homo Sapiens to educating our other selves we also need to talk about assessment changing. Does the learning of Homo Ludens suggest the same kind assessment as historically used for Homo Sapiens?

A place that some of that conversation might be unfolding is over in HASTAC http://www.hastac.org/forum...

They are trying to look at grading/assessment/evaluation in a digital/web 2.0 world

Re: Harvesting Gradebook « Center for Teaching, Learning, & Technology › jessica mullen's lifestream

nilspeterson — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:59:33 -0000

Jessica, I just found this post because of the Google Alert I have on the phrase "Harvesting Gradebook" Based on brief exploration, I think we have some overlapping interests. You may be interested in our new blog (moved out of the WSU branded on) http://communitylearning.wo... where our work on assessment leads us more and more to question some of the core assumptions of the university. There is also a Diigo group, CTLT and Friends that may interest you.

Re: Playing Catch Up: Colleges and the Web

nilspeterson — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:42:33 -0000

Tom,
I found you because you put our Harvesting Gradebook YouTube into your feed. I've looked around your blog, and found this. It seems we are thinking along parallel lines.

Now I'm blogging at communitylearning.wordpress... where you'll find the most recent Harvesting Gradebook stuff, but last spring I wrote this about shifting faculty roles http://wsuctlt.wordpress.co.... The last two items linked from that post

# Updated Learning Spectrum self-assessment
# Four strategies (different points on the Learning Spectrum)

may interest you. The first is a self-assessment of where you fall on the spectrum from institution-centric to community-centric learning. The second is a chart of four model institutions, from traditional brick and mortar to a (hypothesized) community-based 'institution.'

Nils

Re: Assessment as a Social Activity

nilspeterson — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:45:58 -0000

Jared, I'd go a bit further than Jon, and closer to Seely Brown. Much of work and most of the pressing real problems to be solved require multi-disciplinary collaborative teams. The work in involves learning (research, design, etc are forms of learning). Cathy Davidson at HASTAC has called this mode of working "Collaboration by Difference." The Internet allows new means of creating these social learning settings. I believe students need to be learning in these contexts (often outside the university walls) and my interest is in how to provide assessment (not grading) of the learning that benefits both the learner and the academic program that is facilitating the learning.

Re: Assessment as a Social Activity

nilspeterson — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:40:53 -0000

Jon

The event is Fri 25th 2PM Eastern time. Here is our post (in development 9/23) that serves as the jumping off point for the session http://communitylearning.wo...

Re: Assessment as a Social Activity

nilspeterson — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:14:03 -0000

Jon,
Thanks for your kind comments and the pointer to Brown & Adler. I note your interest in BYU accreditation -- which in my mind is moving up the "stack" from the course's gradebook to the institution's gradebook. We have been taking our Harvesting ideas up the stack also. You may be interested in this outline for how we imagine responding to our university's accreditor http://communitylearning.wo...

Sorry I didn't get to OpenEd in Vancouver this August, I gather it was a good meeting. I would have liked to have chatted with you. As a poor substitute, consider joining us next Fri Sept 25 for a TLT Group Friday Live session were we will explore Harvesting and accreditation. http://www.tltgroup.org/Fri...

Re: PLNs, Portfolios, and a Loosely-Coupled Gradebook

nilspeterson — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:53:57 -0000

Jon
Sorry we won't be able to meet with you in Vancouver next month, but wanted to share the next step in our Harvesting Gradebook explorations. Here is a working example we are building for a webinar later this month.
http://communitylearning.wo...

You do not need to wait for the event, you can link from the blog to the event space and use the tools to rate a sample of student work (and the assignment that prompted that work) and then see the feedback harvested from three vantage points (student, instructor, and program). I think this will illustrate our ideas about harvesting, more than grades, qualitative feedback, and for more than the purpose of marking students, but to improve assignments and academic programs.