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Sinclair, Stefanie – Open Learning, 2016
This case study critically evaluates benefits and challenges of a form of assessment included in a final year undergraduate Religious Studies Open University module, which combines a written essay task with a digital audio recording of a short oral presentation. Based on the analysis of student and tutor feedback and sample assignments, this study…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Undergraduate Study, Religious Education, Open Universities
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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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Forsyth, Rachel – Open Learning, 2002
Presents a case study of an online course that was designed for staff professional development at Manchester Metropolitan University (United Kingdom). Discusses the flexibility of online courses; course design; activities for short online workshops; evaluation methods for course evaluation; and results of participant questionnaires. (LRW)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Course Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
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Davis, Hayley J.; Smith, Alison J. – Open Learning, 1996
Describes how the prereading material for an introductory banking course at the Loughborough University Business School (United Kingdom) was transformed into a distance learning package. Highlights include a review of relevant literature; a transformation model; and evaluation of the transformation process and of the distance learning package.…
Descriptors: Banking, Business Administration Education, Distance Education, Evaluation Methods
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Peters, Mike – Open Learning, 1996
Describes a small-scale study of newly enrolled Open University (Great Britain) students regarding their views of nontraditional strategies for assessment and for maximizing openness through the use of questionnaires and interviews. Topics include self-assessment; peer assessment; fixed deadlines for course assignments; independent thinking; and…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Assignments, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research