Please join us for the Kaleidoscope Assessment Workshops in February 2013.
The Kaleidoscope open course designs bring open educational resources (OER) together to create a complete, open course design for general education courses. These open resources eliminate textbook cost as a barrier to student success. More importantly, they provide faculty members the freedom to revise, remix, reuse and redistribute the course materials.
Our vision is to create effective, granular assessments in each of the Kaleidoscope course designs that will allow us to make very targeted improvements to the Kaleidoscope open materials that will improve student learning. We will also tie the assessments to deeper learning outcomes where appropriate.
The assessment workshops will bring together faculty leaders from each discipline to work closely with assessment experts to evaluate and improve the Kaleidoscope course designs. The assessment approach developed in the workshops will also be included in the design of twenty additional Kaleidoscope course designs in 2013 and 2014.
Each workshops will focus on specific disciplines.
Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Business
Date: February 13 – 14, 2013
Location: Cerritos, California
Education, Math, Psychology, Reading and Writing
Date: February 26 – 27, 2013
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
The workshops are open to all. Please contact us if you would like to attend and we will provide more information.