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20 Ways to Assess Prior Knowledge

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In this post, we delve into various strategies educators can use to assess students’ prior knowledge. From interactive classroom activities like quizzes and mind maps to reflective practices like learning logs and self-assessments, these methods offer a diverse range of ways to gauge what students know and how they think.

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Who wants to join me for a course on leadership during a crisis or leadership for social justice?

Dangerously Irrelevant

I have a little room in my teaching schedule so I am offering two online Master’s-level courses this summer: EDUC 5001 E50. We will do a pre-assessment at the beginning of the course to see what you already know and what you’d like to learn! We also will have a Canvas course shell for readings, assignments, and other activities.

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Learning Transformed Course

A Principal's Reflections

As a result, an online course was created with the help of Participate. Below you will see how the course is structured as well as learner outcomes. The content is aligned to well over 100 research studies in addition to what successfully implemented innovative practices actually look like in action. Anyone can register HERE.

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Assessment strategies in higher education- What are formative and summative approaches in student assessment?

Linways Technologies

To do so, they need to have a proper assessment strategy in place. In the absence of a clear mapping between program outcomes and assessment tools, student achievement of program outcomes is inaccurate and unreliable. Conscious efforts need to be made to bring application skills or higher cognitive skills to the assessment.

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Building a specifications grading course, part 2

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

This is the second part of a two-parter where I am going into detail about how the grading system in my current course, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, is set up. The first part, where I described the big picture of the course, its learning objectives, and what a "C" and "A" semester grade should mean, is here.

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The Digital Transformation of Healthcare Education

EdTech4Beginners

Fast-paced programs, like those offering an accelerated nursing degree online , pack courses into 12-18 months. Sophisticated learning algorithms parse through data on students’ engagement, quiz performance, knowledge gaps and more to create customized study plans. They access libraries of interactive video case studies.

Education 100
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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

Edsurge

Over the past seven years, we’ve continually developed and tweaked a seminar-style onboarding course to help all new employees, regardless of their background, catch up to speed on key issues in education and technology. The primary goal of the course is to start conversations that continue throughout an employee’s tenure.

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