Presentation of Rob Lowney & Suzanne Stone for EDEN's European Online and Distance Learning Week on 'Practical and pedagogical ways to assess your students online' - Wednesday, November 4, 2020, 12:00-13:30 CET More info: https://www.eden-online.org/eden_conference/eodlw-2020-5/

2. Crowd-sourcing an OER:
Exemplars and Case Studies of
Technology-Enhanced Assessment
Rob Lowney & Suzanne Stone
Teaching Enhancement Unit
Dublin City University (DCU)

3. Session overview
1. EDTL project brief introduction
2. Rationale for crowdsourcing an Open Educational Resource
(OER) on technology-enhanced assessment
3. Process for developing OER
4. Access to OER

4. Enhancing Digital Teaching and
Learning (EDTL)
● Three-year nationally-funded project
2019-2021
● Project aim:
○ enhance the digital attributes and
educational experiences of Irish university
students
○ develop, pilot, review and roll out an
ambitious staff development programme to
enhance the digital confidence, skills and
competences of those who teach in Irish
universities
Courtesy of Dr
Sharon Flynn, IUA

5. Approach
This project aims to
mainstream digital in
teaching and learning
activities in Irish
Universities, by
addressing the
professional development
of all who teach or
support teaching and
learning.
Courtesy of Dr
Sharon Flynn, IUA

6. ApproachCourtesy of Dr
Sharon Flynn, IUA

7. Pedagogy first - DigCompEduCourtesy of Dr
Sharon Flynn, IUA
European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators (DigCompEdu)

8. Project structureCourtesy of Dr
Sharon Flynn, IUA
● Steering group
○ Senior management
● IUA project manager
○ Dr Sharon Flynn
● Project team
○ Project leads in 7
universities
○ Student intern working
at national project level
○ Local level interns at
each university
See edtl.blog for more information

9. One pilot, seven flavoursCourtesy of Dr
Sharon Flynn, IUA
Dublin City
University
Focus on assessment through structured workshops and development activities,
involving 3 pilot groups.
Trinity College
Dublin
Redesigning an accredited module in Technology Enhanced Learning to focus on the
Flipped Classroom.
University
College Dublin
Leveraging digital for student feedback in the College of Science with the move to the
new VLE; initial needs analysis in College of Engineering, focus on creation of interactive
animations for engagement.
Maynooth
University
Conducted a needs assessment with 3 separate pilot groups, focus on information
literacy and student skills, and aligning the learning outcomes of a new accredited
module.
University
College Cork
Leveraging the move to the new VLE to focus on staff digital skills.
University of
Limerick
Conducting a needs assessment with 2 pilot groups, enhancing staff and student digital
skills to support peer and self-assessment/
NUI Galway Focus on curriculum (re)design and development of digital resources through a
structured approach. Alignment with existing accredited CPD.

10. DCU Pilot phase (Sep-Dec 2019)
Focus on ‘Why’ of
TEA, ‘How to’ later
Starting point:
workshops already
offered by TEU
Refine workshops
for discipline
specific needs
Focus groups
Intern
Staff development Programme: Underlying principles

11. DCU Pilot phase (Sep-Dec 2019)
● DCU’s focus: technology-enhanced assessment (TEA)
● Why assessment?
● 4 work packages:
○ Staff Development Programme
○ Development and Maintenance of Online Resources
○ Ongoing Technical Enhancements for the VLE (Moodle)
○ Communications and Dissemination

12. Crowd-sourcing an OER
Why create a resource?
● To support work of the EDTL project @ DCU
● Many academics wedded to ‘traditional’ forms of assessment
● Difficulty conceptualising alternative assessments
● Bank of exemplars/case studies can support move to
alternative assessments

13. Crowd-sourcing an OER
Why crowd-sourcing?
● Draw on community knowledge and
experience
Why an OER?
● Aligns with Teaching Enhancement
Unit OPEN practice and our personal
philosophies
● Allows for continuing development Image by Mariana Anatoneag from Pixabay

14. Crowd-sourcing an OER
How? Co-creating live online
The silence as participants work online
independently can be uncomfortable.
so…..
Photo by Warren Wong on Unsplash

15. Crowd-sourcing an OER
Our Approach
● Relaxed and fun, music & spot prizes
● Scaffolding through discussion/review live
contributions
● No pressure to contribute - participants
invited to simply browse if they wish
● Inviting contributors to discuss their
exemplar in the webinar without pressure
Photo by Warren Wong on Unsplash

16. The OER
November 2020 version
http://bit.ly/OER-NOV20
30 exemplars to date
See also www.dcu.ie/teu/edtl

17. Go raibh míle maith agaibh
(thank you!)
Rob Lowney
rob.lowney@dcu.ie
@lowneyrob
Suzanne Stone
suzanne.stone@dcu.ie
@suzielearning
Teaching Enhancement Unit, Dublin City University