Implementation Plan

The context for this implementation is creating interesting and challenging assessments for students.  As all good teachers do, the quest is to create an assessment that ensure learning continues to happen when students work on it - an assessment for learning and not of.  To enable this, a good practise that I like to adapt is designing feedback points to ensure that they are on the right track and.  Working on small chunks of the assessment at a time makes it less daunting for students - a modular approach from my days as a programmer!

Having used posters as an assessment once - quite sceptically, I was quite satisfied with the way it panned out. It required students to summarise their research/case study, to be succinct in their choice of words, use visuals to highlight findings and more important be creative.  A natural extension of this format would be to use an online poster for an assessment in a course in Quality Management.  Students would develop a poster with a supporting summary document to identify a quality problem in an organisation, examine the impact, analyse cause and effects and suggest a solution.  With a bit of preliminary research, I decided to use Glogstere  a popular tool with educators.  It seems very easy to use and I was impressed with the body of work done mostly by school students.  Although, I have not seen too many examples of its use in tertiary education, it seems to have the potential.

I'd like to follow up with a literary review of posters as learning/assessment tools in general and the potential of graphical and interactive blogs as emerging technology tools.  A short survey or a focus group meeting with students is part of the plan to obtain their feedback and incorporate it into my evaluation.

That's the plan.