The analysis stage
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
||
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
|
||
Learner group
The learner group for this Graduate Certificate are all VET trainers and teachers. I have had a fairly wide range of people enrolled from industry trainers and trade teachers to people teaching diplomas and Graduate Certificates. This range has proved to be a challenge when designing assessment tasks as they had widely different learning styles. As it is a Graduate Certificate the assessment needs to be fairly rigorous but not completely daunting to the learners.
Assessment context
The Graduate Certificate in Flexible Delivery aims to develop both practical skills in the delivery of online and flexible approaches and a theoretical basis from which to approach that delivery. As such my assessment tasks needed to balance the theoretical and practical. I tried to include tasks that would suit a wide range of learning styles.
Current practice & existing resources
I have been delivering the Graduate Certificate in Flexible Delivery for many years and the last few have been completely online. So I had amassed a wide range of resources both electronic and paper based. I wanted to use these and so, for example in Instructional Design, I still send learners the original paper based teaching manual. This manual is referred to in the online materials at various points. Also I use other online sites extensively and have incorporated these into my online materials. Some of the assessment tasks have remained the same and others have been added to take into account the added features of the online environment.
Range and type of assessment
The assessment needed to include both theoretical and practical tasks.
Another imperative for me was to model some of the online assessment options
which VET practitioners may want to use themselves in the future. So I
decided to include some quizzes, reports uploaded to a dropbox, online
discussion
tasks, development
of
online materials
for teaching purposes.
