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Open Learning Cultures - A Guide to Quality, Evaluation, and Assessment for Future Learning (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013)
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Open Learning Cultures - A Guide to Quality, Evaluation, and Assessment for Future Learning (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013)
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Today we are seeing a new form of blended learning: not only is
technology enhancing the learning environment but formal and
informal learning are combining and there is self- and
peer-assessment of results. Open learning cultures are challenging
the old and long-practiced methods used by educators and
transforming learning into a more student-driven and independent
activity , which uses online tools such as blogs, wikis or podcasts
to connect resources, students and teachers in a novel way. While
in higher education institutions most assessments are still tied to
formal learning scenarios, teachers are more and more bound to
recognize their students' informal learning processes and networks.
This book will help teachers, lecturers and students to better
understand how open learning landscapes work, how to define quality
and create assessments in such environments, and how to apply these
new measures. To this end, Ehlers first elaborates the
technological background for more collaborative, distributed,
informal, and self-guided learning. He covers the rise of social
media for learning and shows how an architecture of participation
can change learning activities. These new paradigms are then
applied to learning and education to outline what open learning
landscapes look like. Here he highlights the shift from knowledge
transfer to competence development, the increase in lifelong
learning, and the importance of informal learning, user generated
content, and open educational resources. He then shows how to
manage quality by presenting a step by step guide to developing
customized quality concepts for open learning landscapes. Finally,
several methods dealing with assessment in these new environments
are presented, including guidelines, templates and use cases to
exemplify the approaches. Overall, Ehlers argues for assessment as
an integral part of learning processes, with quality assurance as a
method of stimulating a quality culture and continuous quality
development rather than as a simple controlling exercise.
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