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Thompson, Virginia L.; Wallach, Patrick – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2023
This paper presents a case study conducted by two universities seeking to explore Open Education Resources (OER) in their precalculus course. Students not only gained access to their textbook for free on the first day of class, but also Lumen OHM, an online mathematics assessment platform. The majority of students involved in the study were…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Open Educational Resources, Calculus, Textbooks
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Ifenthaler, Dirk; Schumacher, Clara; Kuzilek, Jakub – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: Formative assessments are vital for supporting learning and performance but are also considered to increase the workload of teachers. As self-assessments in higher education are increasingly facilitated via digital learning environments allowing to offer direct feedback and tracking students' digital learning behaviour these…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Economics Education, Business Administration Education, Faculty Workload
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Lowe, T. W.; Mestel, B. D. – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications, 2020
The development of six online quizzes to support students' study of an introductory mathematics masters module at The Open University is described and their use evaluated. The quizzes were implemented using the "STACK" online e-assessment system, which is powered by a computer-algebra engine. Evaluation of student feedback and an initial…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Assisted Testing, Mathematics Tests, Introductory Courses
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Peytcheva-Forsyth, Roumiana; Mellar, Harvey; Aleksieva, Lyubka – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2019
This paper presents a case study carried out at Sofia University in Bulgaria, describing the relationship between two developments, firstly an expanding involvement with online learning and e-assessment, and secondly the development of institutional approaches to academic integrity. The two developments interact, the widening use of e-learning and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Universities, Integrity, Cheating
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Jaafari, Mohamed – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
This article demonstrates the way flipped learning is implemented in response to new learning environment to solve inadequacies in setting and enhance learning and teaching practices. Accordingly, in the Faculty of Arabic Language in Marrakech, flipped classroom is adopted as a pedagogical solution to approach novel occurrences in teaching and…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Nguyen, Viet Anh – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to build an assessment-centred blended learning (BL) framework to assess learners, to analyse and to evaluate the impact of the technology support in the form of formative assessment in students' positive learning. Design/methodology/approach: This research proposed an assessment-centred BL framework at the…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Formative Evaluation, Management Systems, Teaching Methods
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Okada, Alexandra; Scott, Peter; Mendonça, Murilo – Open Praxis, 2015
The challenging of assessing formal and informal online learning at scale includes various issues. Many universities who are now promoting "Massive Online Open Courses" (MOOC), for instance, focus on relatively informal assessment of participant competence, which is not highly "quality assured". This paper reports best…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Internet, Online Courses, Large Group Instruction
Adewale, Olubiyi Adeniyi; Ajadi, Timothy Olugbenga; Inegbedion, Juliet O. – Online Submission, 2011
In mid-2009, the NOUN (National Open University of Nigeria) reached the decision to shift from conventional (that is, pen-and-paper) examination to electronic examination in the conduct of the end of semester examinations. One of the major factors prompting this decision is the inability of the university to release the results of past…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Case Studies, Pretests Posttests
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Jordan, Sally – Open Learning, 2011
Interactive computer-marked assignments (iCMAs) are in use on a range of Science Faculty level 1 modules at the Open University UK, alongside tutor-marked assignments, for summative and formative purposes. They are also used diagnostically to help prospective students to make an appropriate choice of starting point. iCMAs have been very well…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Computer Assisted Testing, Distance Education, Science Education
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Yang, Juan; Han, Xibin; Zhou, Qian – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2011
With the rapidly increasing entrance examinations for the School of Continuing education of CUGB, there is an urgent need of the examination papers that have the parallel testing ability for the same academic program. Based on the analysis of parallel factors and the comparison of the manual generated mode and the computer generated mode, the most…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Testing, Continuing Education, Test Construction
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Buchan, Janet F.; Swann, Michael – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
The in house development of an online assessment tool, OASIS, has provided a unique opportunity to research the use of online assessment in teaching and learning across the university. The developing relationship between IT staff, educational designers and academics serves as a model for integrated and evolving management systems which demonstrate…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Models, Universities, Foreign Countries
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Kalz, Marco; van Bruggen, Jan; Giesbers, Bas; Waterink, Wim; Eshuis, Jannes; Koper, Rob – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is twofold: first the paper aims to sketch the theoretical basis for the use of electronic portfolios for prior learning assessment; second it endeavours to introduce latent semantic analysis (LSA) as a powerful method for the computation of semantic similarity between texts and a basis for a new observation link…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Portfolio Assessment, Portfolios (Background Materials), Open Universities