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Showing posts with label remote teaching & learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label remote teaching & learning. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Oral exams in shift to remote learning (by Michaela Sabin, Karen H. jin & Adrienne Smith)

Title:
Oral exams in shift to remote learning
 
Authors:
Michaela Sabin, University of New Hampshire - Manchester
Karen H. Jin, University of New Hampshire - Manchester
Adrienne Smith, Cynosure Consulting

Published:
University of New Hampshire, March 2021

From the abstract:
"In this experience report paper we present our experience with the development of oral assessments as final examinations in three introductory computing courses. The choice of this type of summative assessment was prompted by the emergency remote instruction instituted in the middle of the Spring 2020 semester, across colleges and universities in the U.S., due to the coronavirus pandemic."
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Note:
This preprint has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education and will be presented at SIGCSE ’21, March 13–20, 2021, Virtual Event, USA.

Monday, February 15, 2021

AFRICA - Promoting digital transformation with a 12-point agenda [University World News, 11 February 2021]

Title:
Promoting digital transformation with a 12-point agenda
 
Authors:
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza & Paul Mzee Okanda
 
Published:
University World News, 11 February 2021

From the article:
According to a survey by the Association of Commonwealth Universities prior to the pandemic, only 16% of African respondents indicated that online teaching had occurred in all or most departments.  
 
By May 2020, 74% said that all or most teaching and learning was online.