The JISC Assessment and Feedback Programme is now in its fifth month, looking at a wide range of technological innovations around assessment and feedback in HE and FE. Strand B is focused on the evaluation of earlier work, gathering and evaluating evidence on the impact of these innovations and producing guidelines and supporting material to […]
Standards used in JISC programmes and projects over time
Today I took part in an introduction to R workshop being held at The University of Manchester. R is a software environment for statistics and while it does all sorts of interesting things that are beyond my ability one thing that I can grasp and enjoy is exploring all the packages that are available for R, these packages extend […]
Approaches to building interoperability and their pros and cons
System A needs to talk to System B. Standards are the ideal to achieve that, but pragmatics often dictate otherwise. Let’s have a look at what approaches there are, and their pros and cons.
Evaluating Electronic Voting Systems for Enhancing Student Experience
The eighth project in Strand B (Evidence and Evaluation) of the JISC Assessment and Feedback Programme is Evaluating Electronic Voting Systems for Enhancing Student Experience (EEVS), based at the University of Hertfordshire. This one year project is undertaking an extensive review of the use of electronic voting systems (EVS) in a range of schools across the […]
Deterrents don’t deter?
A recent article in THES reports on research by Robert J. Youmans at California State University Northridge that found that Students who are aware that their work will be checked by plagiarism-detection software are just as likely to cheat as those who are not. Conventional wisdom – and intuition – suggests that the threat of discovery, […]
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InterACT: modelling feedback flow
The InterACT project at the University of Dundee, part of the JISC Assessment and Feedback Programme Strand A (institutional change) is working on enhancing feedback dialogue, reflection and feed-forward in a large postgraduate online distance learning course in medical education. The course is unusual in that progress is heavily learner-driven: as students are working professionals […]
eAssessment Scotland 2012 call for posters, presentations and workshops
The call for posters, presentations and workshops for eAssessment Scotland 2012 – Feeding Back, Forming the Future is now available. Proposals should be submitted by 1 May. This annual conference has become a valuable part of the eassessment calendar, as can be seen by the rich and varied content in the archive of past events. The conference […]
2011: a CETIS year in blogging
If you subscribe to any of our CETIS mailing lists you’ll probably be aware that each month I send out a newsletter summarising our blog posts and news stories over the previous month as well as information on our publications, events and sector funding opportunities. As part of this I always include a Top Five […]
Countdown to the JISC CETIS conference 2012
There are only 36 days left until our biggest event of the year, our annual conference. This year’s event, titled The Future Just Happened? Technology Innovation in Universities and Colleges, will be held again at the National College for School Leadership in Nottingham and promises to be a fascinating couple of days. The conference title […]