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Open Assessments and OERs
as Enablers in Competency-
Based Education
Demo for the X International UNESCO Chair Seminar
Tom Caswell, [email protected]
@tom4cam
Brandon Muramatsu, [email protected]
@bmuramatsu
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Safe is risky.
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Measuring education by learning, not time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJdE7u1ZN60#t=598
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What is Competency-Based Education?
Competency-based education (CBE)
awards academic credit based on mastery
of clearly defined competencies.
EDUCAUSE “7 Things you should know about competency-based education”
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1. Emphasizes mastery and de-emphasizes time
2. Assessments/projects play a central role
3. Individualized support for learners
4. More flexibility and responsibility for learners
• Apply prior knowledge and experience
• Learning can be self-paced
Common Features of CBE
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Who Is Doing It?
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Learning is the new constant
Time varies.
Every student can succeed!
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Types of OER Content
• Videos
• Lectures
• Textbooks
• Webpages
• Assessments
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Focus: Formative Assessment
• Check understanding / mastery of
concepts directly in course materials
• Primarily for formative (self-check,
understanding) not summative (exams or
formal assignments)
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The Potential
• Do for assessments what’s been done for
content (courses, lectures, videos)
• Embed anywhere
• Share• Don’t reinvent the wheel for every course
• Evaluate, record and track responses• Scale –> More use of items/assessments for validity
• May lead to evidence of impact?
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openassessments.org
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What is OpenAssessments.org?
• Embed an assessment in any web content
• Focus on formative assessments
• Start with limited question types
• Multiple-choice/single answer
• Numerical answer
• Short answer
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How do you use it?
• Create a question in a standardized format
• Typically using IMS Question & Test Interoperability
spec
• Likely created in your learning management system
• Put the question on a public web server
• Copy and paste the URL to the question file
• That’s it!
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But can we make it reusable?
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Embedded in MIT OpenCourseWare
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How it works
We pass a URL for the raw OLX code to the open assessments web application:
http://www.openassessments.com/assessments/load?utf8=✓src_url=http://…/courses/mathematics/18-05-introduction-to-probability-and-statistics-spring-2014/sequential/ps1.xml
And then to embed it in MIT OCW, we use an iframe:
<iframe style="width: 100%; height: 600px;" src="http://www.openassessments.com/assessments/load?utf8=✓&style=ocw&src_url=http://…/courses/mathematics/18-05-introduction-to-probability-and-statistics-spring-2014/sequential/ps1.xml">
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Analytics (Mockup)
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Related and Future Work
• Increasing use
• Open Item Banks
• Use in Lumen Learning-developed OER course
• Extending to additional MIT OCW courses
• Extending functionality
• Additional question types, especially parameterized/interactive
ones
• How will you use it? openassessments.org
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Thank you for listening.
Tom Caswell, [email protected]
@tom4cam
Brandon Muramatsu, [email protected]
@bmuramatsu