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Abstract: Despite major discussion and consideration of authentic assessment through the 1990s, little progress appears to have been made towards its widespread adoption in higher education. Universities often serve to limit the use of authentic approaches in learning tasks and assessment, through restrictive policies. In this paper, we briefly review the literature and summarise the characteristic elements of authentic assessment, and argue that task, assessment and university policies must be aligned for truly effective use of authentic assessment to occur in higher education

alternative assessment strategies

peer assessment

"A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives*"

This is a good review of a case that used the Wiki tool within their LMS to support student collaborative projects. The instructors talk about how they set up the activity, how they assessed it using the LMS user logs, as well as other strategies they used to create an effective implementation. Conclusion: Wiki is a great tool for online group collaboration for both Hybrid and Fully Online courses. This site also had a more detailed PDF document

"Introduction and definitions of the nine Belbin Team Roles, as discovered by Meredith Belbin in the 1970s. Also contains information on how (and why!) to obtain your Team Role profile, in order to assess your contribution to the team."

article on backwards design