Join us for a showcase panel and discussion focusing on innovative assessment of learning, using the online environment and learning technologies. Three UBC faculty and staff members will share their experiences developing and implementing innovative assessments in the context of their teaching practices.

Mary Clark, Assistant Director of the Rehabilitation Science Online Programs, will discuss ways to engage graduate learners with technology that not only builds but also assesses knowledge, and provides them with innovative tools for translating this new knowledge into their clinical practice.

Bernie Garrett, Associate Professor and Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs in the School of Nursing, will demonstrate the use of Concept Maps and Web Reports as alternative assignment techniques to written papers or examinations. The new UBC Online Resource Assessment Centre will also be discussed.

Rob Peregoodoff, Manager Learning Technologies in the Sauder School of Business will present ways that Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) have been used with ‘Fill in the Blank’ question types as a way to create online forms that are used in formal student assessment. In addition to providing a way of assessing student’s online work, these forms are a means of linking student learning with the authentic assessment of specific workplace skills. By merging these technologies, Sauder has successfully implemented fully-online, invigilated exams for 600 concurrent students over the past two semesters.