EASiHE

1. EASiHE E-Assessment in Higher Education A JISC project in Institutional Innovation Gary Wills Bill Warburton Lester Gilbert

2. The brief • Address institutional change by engaging academics and students in co-design and co-deployment. • Place the quality of student learning as the first objective. • Implement an open source1 solution to institutional e-assessment. • Integrate open standards1 services currently available within the JISC eFramework. The project addresses technical and institutional issues in formative e-assessment by deploying the EdSpace repository and integrating a variety of JISC-funded project tools and standards. 1 Koper, R. (2008). Open Source and Open Standards. In J. M. Spector, M. Merrill, J. van Merriënboer & M. P. Driscol (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology (3rd ed.). New York: Routledge.

3. Formative e-Assessments

4. EdShare

5. Quality metrics

6. Interoperable, accessible, mobile

7. ‘New’ e-assessment

8. Existing assets

9. Web 2.0

10. Duration & staffing • Duration • Start October 2008, fully funded 18 months • From March 2010, institutionally funded 12 months • Project staff • Onjira Sitthisak, Project Manager • Susan Walters, Research Fellow • David Bacigalupo, Research Fellow • Bart Nagel, Research Assistant • Pei Zhang, Research Assistant • Steve Bennett, Veronica Gale, Consultants

11. Investigators • Management group • Dr Gary Wills, ECS, PI • Dr Bill Warburton, iSolutions, CAA Officer • Lester Gilbert, ECS • Steering group • Management group, plus: • Dr Richard Crowder, ECS Exams officer • Dr Hugh Davis, UoS Director of eLearning • Dr Ian Giles, LATEU Director • Dr Pete Hancock, iSolutions, Core Mission Engagement Manager

12. Collaborating projects • EdSpace / EdShare (Dr Hugh Davis, ECS) • AQuRate (Dr Graham Alsop, Kingston) • Faroes (Dr Dave Millard, ECS) • LexDis (Dr Mike Wald, ECS) • MCQFM (Dr Steve Bennett, Univ. Hertfordshire) • mPLAT (Dr Dave Millard, ECS) • Peer Pigeon (Dr Dave Millard, ECS) • Question Mark (John Kleeman) • Macfob (Dr Mike Wald, ECS)

13. Schedule

14. Tasks (first 6 months) • M1-2 Co-design • Technical and cultural & institutional requirements for change • Processes and information • Identify schools which will participate(initial targets include Medicine, Law, and Mathematics, later Electronics and Computer Science, Engineering, Geography, and Psychology) • M3-6 Technical team: prototype EASiHE repository, integrate services, tools, and standards • M3-6 Institutional team: engage with senior management, selected Schools, students, and other communities • M6 Review

15. Tasks (second 6 months) • M7-8 Co-deployment. Selected users (staff and students) supported (technical team) and educated (institutional team) (facilitated by consultancy) • M9 Evaluation • M10-12 Technical team: Adjustments and enhancements • M10-12 Institutional team: Support culture and practice changes, prepare for larger-scale deployment • M12 Review

16. Tasks (after 12 months) • M13-16 Co-deployment . Six Schools, Semester 1, supported (technical team and institutional team). Document emerging practice (facilitated by consultancy). • M17 Evaluation • M18 Review • M19-30 Embedding. EASiHE embedded within the University infrastructure, made available to all Schools.

17. Deliverables • EASiHE repository and services • Documentation on pedagogical design of e-assessments and on e-assessment management policies • Dissemination materials & reports, including co-design and co-deployment , institutional change, & exemplary practice • Project Web site, blog, & wiki • Final project report • Journal & conference papers on re-use of e-Framework services, incorporation of MathQTI, student experience of EASiHE, institutional change, & benefits of Web 2.0

18. Thank you! Questions, comments, discussion… http://www.easihe.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ gbw@ecs.soton.ac.uk lg3@ecs.soton.ac.uk wiw@soton.ac.uk