Many times some clients asked me about how to set up their existing Microsoft SharePoint server as a Learning Management System to implement eLearning instantly, such as they want to “Make SCORM Compliant Quiz for LMS to Evaluate Online Learning Performance“. Actually the key points the SharePoint users want are: content management, instructor/learner workflows, and assignment, tracking and grading learning content. As we cannot directly rebuild SharePoint anyway, Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit could be the enough solution.
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Although online tests have helped access learning in an easy yet smart way, teachers still need an efficient solution to get more values from these test results.
September 5th, 2008 - In order to measure students’ learning in a flexible approach, many teachers have successfully incorporated online tests and exams in classroom with modern educational technologies. Afterwards teachers would obtain all test items and responses in detail, and generate analysis report of scoring statistics for effective teaching and learning. However, due to the lack of system-based tracking support or tech knowledge, most teachers are muddled by these enormous raw data of test results. That’s why such an easy online reporting system is so essential for the teachers.
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From the definition of E-assessment from Wikipedia, we can see the advantages of deploying an e-testing system are obvious: lower long-term cost, instant feedback, great flexibility, improved reliability and enhanced question styles. We, especially teachers, cannot refuse so many advantages here over traditional assessment. With some authoring tools, we may create high quality assessment items with IMS Question and Test Interoperability specification to evaluate students’ learning progress. But here is NOT the end of E-assessment. As the assessing part of eLearning, the tests creation and participation is just the method. We really need the test results of the e-assessment to evaluate how students learnt.
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Have you ever considered how to set up your online quizzes and exams to impact learning and success? Or have you ever wondered what’s the best way to use to improve blended eLearning? We explored many of the facets of online assessment, and found that the segment of score reporting leads the assessment efficiency, and usually is neglected in online assessment.
Posting the quiz to an LMS (Learning Management System, like Blackboard) might be the most efficient thing to do if we want to track and report the scores. But we know, not everyone can afford an LMS, or like to use an LMS. Instead of using an LMS to manage the quiz results, we may like to instruct the quiz to send the scores via e-mail, or a specialized reporting system. The results tracking and score reporting capability seems to be an usual requirement from most users as online assessment instructors. And the online score reporting system would be the perfect solution for effective online scoring.
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I came across the teaching professional Kate Britt’s Pink Flamingo’s Resource Lists site when I’m looking for some useful links for educators’ virtual classroom around the Internet. Perhaps it’s the title “Pink Flamingo” like the well-known movie (sorry for any inappropriateness or impoliteness) attracted me, but finally I’m definitely interested in those resources, which are exactly what I need for learning development. Whatever eLearning references or other teaching resources inside the site, teachers, educators or even any developers will find and learn more resources here. I deeply appreciate Kate’s kindness of all the resources and her continuous resource updates on the blog What’s New in PinkFlamingo’s Resource Lists?.
To incorporate the Web 2.0 technologies into classrooms, we’re pulling blogs, wikis, tagging, media sharing, and other tools familiar to Web 2.0 community crowd. So many Web 2.0 tools for eLearning is waiting for us here, so I strongly recommend Jane Hart’s latest “Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008“, which is compiled from the contributions of 192 learning professionals (from both education and workplace learning).
More than Web 2.0 tools, let’s think outside the box, outside the classroom, social media for learning is already widely informed in more business workplace. Gladly I come across the research of the business value of Web 2.0 tools for informal learning by Jay Cross. Look at these points here, and I bet everyone will have own insights about Web 2.0 eLearning upon this.
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