HMOA5403-Online Instructional Assessment

This course is designed to enable learners to understand, use and apply online instructional methods. The idea is to make students know the manner and the methods in which assessment can be done within the online learning environment in an holistic manner along with the use of feedback and evaluation tools.

The objectives of the course are stated below:

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

1. Explain the merits and demerits of online assessment as compared to traditional assessment.
2. Give a critical evaluation of various online tools.
3. Evaluate and present the various models used to assess online discussion
4. Create an e-portfolio using any available tool.
5. Discuss bias, safety and legal issues related to online assessment


Instructor:

Dr.R.Shriram, Director – Faculty Training Academy and Professor – Department of Computer Science and Engineering, B.S. Abdur Rahman University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. shrionsong@yahoo.com

Pre-HMOA5403 Thoughts 

Going through the course description, I knew this was going to be a very interesting course. Though this is also the first time I would be learning anything that has to do with online assessment, I knew it was going to be like other assessment courses, interesting. Since I have been itching for the introduction of online facilitation in NOUN, I knew I had to learnt as much as I can from this course so that I could help NOUN to begin doing the right thing in online assessment when eventually we start using the online facilitation. It was with this spirit that I prepared to undertake this course.

The main textbook for the course is Hricko and Howell  (2006) and additional references are Howell and Hricko (2005) and Rabinowitz and Brandt (2001).