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How can you engage your students during their in-class meetings with out-of-class assignments and assessments? Come to join this brown bag for a discussion on innovative technology- based assessment strategies. Dr. Scott Roberts, Director of Undergraduate Studies, will discuss some of the strategies for developing technology-supported learning assessments that ensure students come to class prepared to participate in discussions, demonstrations and activities.

Students should have many options for online learning, not simply a digitized replication of the majors, minors, requirements, courses, schedules and institutional arrangements of conventional universities. The best online learning programs will not simply mirror existing forms of university teaching but offer students a range of flexible learning opportunities that take advantage of new digital tools and pedagogies to widen these traditional horizons, thereby better addressing 21st-century learner interests, styles and lifelong learning needs.

Freed from time and place, online learning should nonetheless be connected back to multiple locations around the world and not tethered exclusively to the digital realm. This can happen by building in apprenticeships, internships and real-world applications of online problem sets. Problem sets might be rooted in real-world dilemmas or comparative historical and cultural perspectives.

Online learning should be flexible, dynamic, and individualized rather than canned or standardized. One size or approach does not fit all.