Assessing Collaborative Efforts

Participation in a collaborative learning community can be assessed by receiving feedback on what you did and then go in the industry or your career and you will see it in a different world. The transition to a career or work environment is something educators need to provide learners. It should be an assessment that is fair, direct, properly deals with how the learner will achieve results or activities that relates to what was said as the outcome.

The varying levels of skill and knowledge students bring to course affect the instructors “fairs and equitable assessment” of learning is where education becomes a difficult conversation. You bump us against education regularly because the view of education has been broadened. Instead of a classroom, a confined experience starts seeing education as participation in large environments where there is prior learning assessment and recognition in a fitting model. The concept is assessing someone beyond a strictly mark that is based assessment and what it mean to assess someone that is based where they started versus where they will end up and also the growth of degree that they experienced.

If a student does not want to network or collaborate in a learning community for online courses the other members of the learning community have the potential for the whole system to breakdown. You will see emphasis of critical nature cooperation in tasks and activities that you cannot achieve yourself (Siemen). The role that he instructor plays is to stay active in the process to guide participants gently so that they will not go astray and bring them back to the learning goals of why they are there in the first place (Palloff & Pratt, 2007).

Blog Post:

http://tlcoleman73.blogspot.com/2009/07/module-3-blog-post.html

Retrieved September 29, 2009.

References:

Siemens, G. (Speaker). (n.d.). Learning Communities. Retrieved September 8, 2009.

Siemens, G. (Speaker). (n.d.). Assessment of Collaborative Learning. Retrieved September 8, 2009.

Palloff, R.M. & Pratt, K.. (2007). Recontextualizing community. In R.M. Palloff & K. Pratt, Building online learning communities, (pp. 42-43). San Francisco, CA, Jossey-Bass.