RECENT ARTICLES

• Design Thinking and Thinking by Design

  By Damien Michaud

  

  Clark Quinn's "Make It Meaningful" provides a primer and a playbook for educators to reflect upon and improve their personal practice.

  
  

• The impact of work and life experience on learning: A conversation with Peter Smith

  By Amy J. Hilbelink

  

  Oftentimes, when we consider traditional higher education, we neglect to ask whether our institutions are serving all learners.

  
  

• Outsourced Professional Development for Online Instructors: Recommendations from research

  By Ling Zhao, Raymond Dixon, Tonia Dousay, Ali Carr-Chellman

  

  How can institutions improve the quality of online teaching? Faculty share their thoughts on outsourced professional development.

  
  

• Down the rabbit hole: Revisiting etymology, epistemology, history and practice of instructional and learning design

  By Begüm Saçak, Aras Bozkurt, Ellen Wagner

  

  There is a multitude of terminologies in the field of learning and training to refer to how we design and approach learning experiences.

  
  

• Micro-credentials: An interview with George Ubachs

  By Dilek Şenocak, Şeyda Kır

  

  A conversation on how micro-credentials support equity and inclusion in education, plus more.

  
  

• Relearnit Reexamines online program management (OPM): An interview with Dr. Ronald Wagner

  By Ali Carr-Chellman

  

  For many smaller players, OPMs fill an important role in the current e-learning landscape.

  
  

• Is My Classroom Flipped? Using Process Mining to Avoid Subjective Perception

  By José Francisco dos Santos Neto, Sarajane Marques Peres, Paulo Correia, Marcelo Fantinato

  

  Ensuring the flipping process took place, understanding how it occurred, and verifying whether it produced positive results has been a challenge.

  
  

• Conversation-Based Assessments: Real-Time Assessment and Feedback

  By Seyma N. Yildirim-Erbasli, Okan Bulut

  

  Current digital assessments still need to be modified to measure student learning in more engaging and effective ways.

  
  

• A future of assessment without testing

  By Kristen DiCerbo

  

  There are some promising inroads around assessment, but also some lingering challenges remain.

  
  

• Beyond multiple-choice with digital assessments

  By Okan Bulut

  

  A summary of different types of digital assessments and a discussion on how they differ from traditional item types.

  
  

RECENT OPINIONS

Getting Authoring Right: How to innovate for meaningful improvement

By Alice Leigh, Shaun Crowley

With so much technology-enabled innovation in assessment, one area has often had too little attention--the exam development phase, often called the "hardest job in publishing." Writing exams is so challenging and so important, not just for the validity of tests but also for the ability of exam providers to innovate their services and operate efficiently. With genuinely enterprise scale solutions finally becoming available in this area, the authors offer a checklist guide for assessment providers to review their authoring processes.

Harnessing the Power of Natural Language Processing to Mass Produce Test Items

By Martin C. Yu, Taylor Sullivan

Mass production of test items involves numerous steps and takes time. Technology can play a key role in supplementing human resources whether gathering and storing source materials, communicating with subject matter experts, or synchronizing and coordinating activities during a complex or fast-paced development cycle. Our work in automated item generation (AIG) using natural language processing is one example of this process unfolding in practice. Over the past few years, there has been a surge in developments in the fields of natural language understanding and generation (NLU/NLG) regarding applications of language models developed via machine learning techniques that have yet to be applied to the area of AIG.