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Webinar on TALOE results at the USDLA National Distance Learning Week

“Talks on e-assessment and learning outcomes” webinar series is continuing with a new webinar entitled “The TALOE  web tool”  on 11 November 2015 at 16.00 CET. The webinar is part of the professional events organized in the context of the United States Distance Learning Association National Distance Learning Week (USDLA NDLW).

The lecturers will be Sandra Kučina Softić, Assistant Director for Training and User Support at the University Computing Centre University of Zagreb, Rita Falcão de Berredo, Head of the Research Support Office at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Éva Szalma, Project Officer at European Distance and E-Learning Network. The TALOE web tool is developed to help teachers and trainers decide on the assessment strategies to use in their online courses. During the webinar, the presenters will demonstrate the tool, and talk about the ALOA (Aligning Learning Outcomes and Assessment) conceptual model that highlights the connection between the intended learning outcomes and the assessment strategy used during a course.

Participation is free, however you are kindly requested to fill in a short registration form. You can join the live webinar at https://connect.srce.hr/taloe_webinars/. In the upper right corner on login page you can change the language to English by selecting the flag icon. To join the webinar Login as guest and enter your name.

You can comment the topic and put questions to the presenters in advance here. The recording of the previous webinars of the series are available here, and so will be all the future webinars.

 

Recording of TALOE webinar “Be aware what you are asking for! Assessment criteria and analytics.” is now available

The TALOE consortium held another successful webinar on 21 October about how essential it is to design assessment that encourages a deep approach to learning as well as assessment methods that are clearly connected with intended learning outcomes of the study program or the course. The presenter was Blaženka Divjak, professor at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics.

The recording is available here, and the previous webinars of the series are available here.

The TALOE project won my-VITA 2015 award

TALOE has developed a web based tool to help teachers and trainers decide on the most appropriate evaluation strategies to their online courses taking into account the defined learning outcomes for the courses.

Recently the project was one of the prize winners of my-VITA 2015. This award is given to initiatives and projects in the field of competence based learning and validation concerning formal and informal learning in Europe. The award ceremony was held in Mechelen (Belgium), at a conference organized by the PROVIDE project.

New TALOE webinar: “Be aware what you are asking for! Assessment criteria and analytics.”

A new webinar “Be aware what you are asking for! Assessment criteria and analytics.” is due on 21 October 2015 at 11.00 CET, as part of the TALOE webinar seriesTalks on e-assessment and learning outcomes”. The lecturer will be Blaženka Divjak, professor at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics. She is going to discuss how assessment guides student learning in higher education. She highlights the importance of designing an assessment that encourage deep approach to learning as well as assessment methods that are clearly connected with intended learning outcomes of the study program or the course. In the webinar two case studies will be presented dealing with creation of assessment rubrics, their implementation and follow up learning analytics.

Participants can join the webinar at https://connect.srce.hr/taloe_webinars/ without previous registration. In the upper right corner on login page you can change the language to English by selecting the flag icon. To join the webinar Login as guest and enter your name.

You can comment the seventh topic and put questions to the presenters in advance here. The recording of the previous webinars of the series are available here, and so will be all the future webinars.