Blended Learning Seminar 2: Assessment in a Blended Learning Environment

This event included the following contributions:  

•    Overview of Assessment in a Blended Learning Environment Dr Mary Kelly, Hibernia College, introduced some key principles in designing authentic online assessments which support teaching and learning in a blended environment. This presentation also looked at how institutions have had to reconceptualise how we assess students in a meaningful way, meeting the learning outcomes, ensuring that we can validate the progression of students and the awarding of credits. 

•    Online Assessment Quality Assurance – a case study during which Ms Aisling Reast, Hibernia College, discussed quality assurance processes underpinning assessment at Hibernia College, with respect to assessment modifications in response to public health restrictions

•    Reimagining the teaching, learning and assessment spaces in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) through a COVID prism, with a specific focus on the School Placement modules Dr Melanie Ní Dhuinn, Trinity College Dublin. The final presentation of the seminar looked at how one ITE programme reinvented the overall experience of the School Placement modules using a blended learning approach.

A number of questions were raised during the seminar and links shared, all of which are available on this link. 

Click here for the full recording of this seminar.