Example 4: Using blogs and communities for student assessment in HE

Course: BA QTS undergraduate computing modules

Assignment: Create and maintain a blogfolio as a reflective journal and multimodal portfolio of work

Tools: Edublogs Pro and Google+ community

Marking strands: use of the blog format, subject knowledge, reflection on pedagogy, contribution to group outcomes

Key idea:

Writing for a live and responsive audience is a transferable skill for class teaching. The presence of a commenting audience provides an incentive to write and facilitates informal peer-to-peer learning.

The use of blogs and communities for student assessment is exaplained in this video:

Video script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F89j9B5y092KSOQo6WR1p8x3lD498iP7iteFj1LN-Vs/edit?usp=sharing

Further reading:

JISC (2014) Students’ expectations and experiences of the digital environment. [online] Available from: http://digitalstudent.jiscinvolve.org/wp/students-expectations-and-experiences-of-the-digital-environment-phase-1-study/  [Accessed: 16/09/15]
JISC (2016) Transforming assessment and feedback with technology. [online] Available from: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/full-guide/transforming-assessment-and-feedback [Accessed; 30/06/16]