ALDinHE 2015 Learning Development Conference presentation: Assessment provokes complex debate - from the moral panics surrounding the inevitable dumbing down of HE due to widening particpation - to necessary adjustments for SpLD to acknowledging the multimodal present... So why does the essay still reign supreme. This presn offers alternative assessments that provoke engagement, creativity, voice and choice... With links to website displaying student Poster Exhibition and 'Develop a Digital Me' artefacts.
5. Tackling disability
• ‘Reasonable adjustment’ ...
• (For all…Ingle 2013a, Ingle 2013b)
• And the major adjustment is ...
• More time for traditional written assignments.
6. Multi-modal age…
• Multi-modal assignments? (Abegglen, Burns &
Sinfield 2014; Burns, Sinfield and Holley 2009,
2012)...
• We get…
• MCQ or online submission…
13. Develop a Digital Me
• http://
learning.londonmet.ac.uk/epacks/posters
-digital/
14. We think we cover:
• Belonging
• Self-efficacy/Self-esteem
• Academic Writing
• Group work
• Digital stuff
• Drawing to Learn
• Blogging to Learn
• Critical thinking
• Notes/reading
• Active learning
• QBL
• Object Based Learning
• Project Based Learning
• Inquiry Based Learning
• Research Based Learning
• Student as Producer
• Creativity in Learning
• Heutagogy
15. Think/Write
• What one activity have you enjoyed the best?
Why
• What one ethos has stood out for you so far?
Why?
16. Make a Game
• To teach that activity to others
• To reinforce that activity in others
• To revise the point of that activity if taught to
others...
• Using the resources in the room!!
20. Bibliography
Abegglen, Burns & Sinfield (2014) ‘Disrupting learning landscapes: Mentoring, engaging, becoming’in
Investigations in University Teaching and Learning Vol 9, Spring 2014 pp15-21
Burns, Sinfield & Holley (2012) ‘The Shipwrecked Shore – and other metaphors: what we can learn from
occupation of – and representations in – virtual worlds’ In Investigations in University Teaching and Learning
Vol8 summer 2012 pp119-126
Crème P (2003) ‘Why can’t we allow students to be more creative?’ in Teaching in Higher Education Vol. 8, No
2 2003 pp 273-277
Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F., 1987/2005. A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia. Minneapolis,
London: University of Minnesota Press
Hayes (2004) in Satterthwaite, Atkinson and Gale (Eds) Discourse, Power, Resistance: Challenging the Rhetoric
of Contemporary Education Stoke on Trent; Trentham Books
Ingle J (2013a) ‘Writing as exclusionary practice’ in DISCOURSE, POWER AND RESISTANCE: DISCOURSES OF
INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION 2013
Ingle J (2013b) Blog post for DISCOURSE, POWER AND RESISTANCE: DISCOURSES OF INCLUSION AND
EXCLUSION (http://www.thinkingwriting.qmul.ac.uk/node/131 ACCESSED 01.12.14)
Last Refuge blog (2013): http://lastrefugelmu.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/discourse-power-and-resistance-
2013.html
Noble, C (2014) Week 12 blog: https://becomingeducational.wordpress.com/2015/01/02/week-twelve-
learning-log/
Preventing Plagiarism (2008) Staff website: http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/TLTC/connorj/plagiarism/Staff/
Sentito (2013) Leader of the Symposium Strand: ‘Stimulating or stultifying? Education as if learning matters’ in
DISCOURSE, POWER AND RESISTANCE: DISCOURSES OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION 2013
Sinfield, Burns & Holley (2009) ‘a Journey into Silence’ in Social Responsibility Journal Vol 5 No 4 2009 pp566-
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