Assignment ID and standards

[Sean Keesler]

Just so it goes out on the right lists, here is what I put on the fluid wiki
page regarding the content types that need to be stored for assignments. I
know other folks have other solutions in mind, so everyone should know what
crazy ideas I posted (and delete them as necessary).



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The Goal Management project allows an instructor to add "goal" metadata to
the assignment. While it may be feature creep, there are some institutions
that believe that this feature is VERY important to their own
implementation. I'll just mention it here for consideration.

 Actually a very important classification of content is neglected here. In
as much as an assignment is supposed to be a learning experience, there is a
need for ongoing formative feedback and discussion between the instructor
and the learner. The current design is allows for a single comment to the
student, which is arguably insufficient to engage a student in a dialogue
about the activity.

Our own homegrown system was very discussion oriented. The general premise
was that ANY assignment was an opportunity to start an entire thread of
discussion between the instructor and student.

Portfolio tie-in:
Since these teacher to student discussions could essentially be a teacher
guided reflection of the work just performed, there is a case to be made
that this sort of data has an audience in a particular type of student
portfolio. Exposing an assignment description, student work and follow up
discussion as a piece of content that is usable in portfolios would be very
important for those institutions looking to use portfolios as a means to
track student growth over time.

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On 12/12/07 11:00 AM, "Sean Keesler" <smkeesle at syr.edu> wrote:

> Done.
> 
> 
> On 12/12/07 10:39 AM, "Clay Fenlason" <clay.fenlason at et.gatech.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I welcome further contribution on the wiki page:
>> 
>> http://wiki.fluidproject.org/x/KhQa
>> 
>> Just getting started.
>> 
>> ~Clay
>> 
>> On Dec 12, 2007 10:31 AM, Barbara Glover <barbara.glover at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>>> I think this idea of having a threaded comments ability for both
>>> student and instructor allows a lot of flexibility that both user
>>> groups could get a lot of value from.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 12-Dec-07, at 10:17 AM, Sean Keesler wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Our own homegrown system was very discussion oriented. The general
>>>> premise
>>>> was that ANY assignment was an opportunity to start an entire
>>>> thread of
>>>> discussion between the instructor and student. It would be nice to see
>>>> something that allowed ongoing formative discussion after each
>>>> assignment
>>>> between each student and instructor, rather than the single comment
>>>> box for
>>>> the teacher.
>>>> 
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> Sean Keesler
>>>> Project Manager
>>>> The Living SchoolBook
>>>> 030 Huntington Hall
>>>> Syracuse University
>>>> 315-443-4768
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 12/12/07 12:47 PM, "Michael Feldstein"
>>>> <michael.feldstein at oracle.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> http://docs.moodle.org/en/Assignments
>>>>> 
>>>>> - m
>>>>> 
>>>>> Clay Fenlason wrote:
>>>>>> We're gearing up for some extended work on the assignments tool, and
>>>>>> I'm trying to orient myself by identifying other landmarks in this
>>>>>> area, either assignments in LMSes in particular, or more general
>>>>>> submission-feedback workflows.  Searching is not getting me very
>>>>>> far,
>>>>>> as putting "assignment" into a list of search terms always turns up
>>>>>> several hundred bits of student homework before it will get to the
>>>>>> sort of interaction design hints (or open standards) I'm hoping for.
>>>>>> Anyone have any favorites they might point me to?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ~Clay
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