{"id":305,"date":"2012-08-24T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2012\/08\/24\/e-assessment-scotland-conference\/"},"modified":"2012-08-24T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T11:03:00","slug":"e-assessment-scotland-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/e-assessment-scotland-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Assessment Scotland Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I &#8220;attended&#8221; a webinar yesterday morning, as part of E-Assessment Scotland&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-assessment-scotland.org\/?page_id=1030\">online programme<\/a>. It was an early start (8am) since it was also part of the Transforming Assessment project, which is run by a group of Australian universities (for whom it was 5pm). The webinar was entitled &#8220;Assessment and the Manifesto for Teaching Online&#8221;. It was very interesting and challenged many educational orthodoxies, such as emphasising the dangers of plagiarism, which the Manifesto claims will alienate learners.<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-assessment-scotland.org\/?page_id=1030#sqa\">gave a presentation in the afternoon<\/a>. It was entitled &#8220;The Need for a Taxonomy to Facilitate E-Assessment&#8221; and, I hope, it was more interesting than it sounds. I was pleased at the &#8220;attendance&#8221; &#8212; 28 people joined the webinar. It seemed to be well received.<\/p>\n<p>Recordings of all of the presentations will be made available after the conference.&nbsp;The conference itself (the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-assessment-scotland.org\/?page_id=2\">face to face event<\/a>) takes place next Friday and you can still register.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I &#8220;attended&#8221; a webinar yesterday morning, as part of E-Assessment Scotland&#8217;s online programme. It was an early start (8am) since it was also part of the Transforming Assessment project, which is run by a group of Australian universities (for whom it was 5pm). The webinar was entitled &#8220;Assessment and the Manifesto for Teaching Online&#8221;. It was very interesting and challenged many educational orthodoxies, such as emphasising the dangers of plagiarism, which the Manifesto claims will alienate learners. I gave a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}