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Presenter

David Boud is Professor of Adult Education in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney. He has been involved in research and teaching development in adult, higher and professional education for many years and has contributed extensively to the literature on teaching innovation, learning from experience and student assessment. His research currently focuses on learning in workplaces. See http://www.davidboud.com

He has held the positions of Dean of the University Graduate School, Head of the School of Adult and Language Education and Associate Dean (Research and Development) in the Faculty of Education at UTS. Prior to his appointment at UTS he was Professor and Foundation Director of the Professional Development Centre at the University of New South Wales.

He is a 2007 Australian Learning and Teaching Council Senior Fellow and in 2010 completed the national project associated with this: 'Student assessment for learning in and after courses’. His assessment website is www.assessmentfutures.com

 

Abstract

Assessment exerts a powerful influence of learning whatever the environment in which it operates. We need to think carefully about the influences of assessment and conceptualise it well if learning is our prime concern. This session will explore how we can frame assessment to promote longer term learning. It will focus on how a digital environment can help us achieve more than is possible in face-to-face situations. It will discuss some of the traps of the digital environment for assessment for learning, as well as what is enabled. It raises questions about what we are to focus on if we are to be serious in transforming assessment for learning and maximising the effects of our courses on what students can do. 

 

Facilitator

Mark Russell

Mark's main areas of interest are in the area of assessment for learning, just in time teaching, technology enhanced learning and curriculum design. Mark is the Project Director of the JISC funded Effecting Sustainable Change in Assessment Practice and Experience (ESCAPE) project and leads the University of Hertfordshire’s (Learning and Teaching Institute’s) strand on Curriculum Design and Innovation. Mark won the Times Higher Education Supplement e-tutor of the year (2003) and is a UK National Teaching Fellow. 

He has recently received a University of Hertfordshire ‘Chancellor’s Medal’ for his recently completed PhD, A Personalised Assessment Programme in Engineering Education. Chancellor’s Medals are for outstanding research and are the highest recognition the University gives for its PhD awards.

He receives numerous invites to present his work at other Universities.