Online Learning Assessment

This course covers practice and theory for assessing learning in an online course. The course reviews course/instructional design practices that allow for optimal student learning and assessment opportunities, presents tools and strategies to promote student learning, and provides best practices for assessing demonstration of student learning in an online course.

This course will take you approximately 16 hours to complete. A learner who explores the material in more depth will take approximately 21 hours and a learner who skims the course content will take 8 hours.

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Module 1: Course Design for Effective Assessment of Learning 3 Topics | 3 Quizzes

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Topic 1 : What are Instructional Design Concepts that may affect Assessment?

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Topic 2 : How do We Determine Learning Opportunities?

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Topic 3 : How can We Connect Learning to Assessments?

Module 1 Topic 3 Quiz

Module 2: Curriculum Design and Assessing Levels of Learning 5 Topics | 5 Quizzes

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Topic 1 : What are Basic Curriculum Design Concepts?

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Topic 2 : What is Backwards Design?

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Topic 3 : How do We Review Outcomes?

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Topic 4 : What is Bloom’s Taxonomy?

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Topic 5 : How do we Connect Outcomes to Learning and Assessment?

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Module 3: Strategies to Enhance Learning through Assessment 6 Topics | 6 Quizzes

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Topic 1 : What are Learner-Centered Assessment Concepts?

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Topic 2 : What is Authentic Assessment?

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Topic 3 : What is Formative and Summative Assessment?

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Topic 4 : What is Direct and Indirect Assessment?

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Topic 5 : What is the Difference between Assessment and Evaluation?

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Topic 6 : How can we Implement Practice and Feedback Loops?

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Module 4: Evaluating Student Learning Online 7 Topics | 8 Quizzes

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Topic 1 : What is Different About Online Assessment?

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Topic 2 : What is the difference between Assessing Content Knowledge and Created Knowledge?

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Topic 3 : What are Differences Between Formal and Informal Assessment?

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Topic 4 : How do We Review and Implement Objective-type Testing?

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Topic 5 : How do we implement and assess Threaded Discussions?

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Topic 6 : How can we Implement and Assess Group Work?

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Topic 7 : How can we Effectively use Rubrics?

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Course Final Quiz

Reflective Practice

Complete the Reflective Practice Exercise

About Instructor

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Dr. Errin Heyman is the Director of Learning and Assessment at Inteleos (inteleos.org). She is also an Assessment Coach with NILOA. She has served as the Director of Assessment and Educational Effectiveness at the California Institute for Advanced Management; led the Initiative for Advancing Leadership for and Visibility in Student Learning Outcomes Assessment at the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC); and has also been an instructor in Park University’s Master in Education program, in addition to other consultant-based projects. Errin has served as the Dean of Educational Effectiveness at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences, and was the founder of the Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching, and Assessment at West Coast University. She also spent multiple years at eCollege, a learning management system vendor, where she led the academic consulting and training team. Errin holds an Ed.D. in Higher Education Leadership, with a focus on Curriculum and Instruction.

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