Bookmarked: The Tangle of Assessment | Hybrid Pedagogy

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At its worst, an online class can become an exercise in data entry, where the quality of student work and learning becomes conflated with scores organized neatly into a spreadsheet. The neat and tidy columns of the LMS (whether D2L, Blackboard, etc.) create a false security, cramming the “tangle” Elbow describes into an artificial sense of order and clarity.

Clay Shirky observes in his recent books Cognitive Surplus and Here Comes Everybody that digital culture does not just create new ways to work, it gives us the extra set of hands and eyes to consider addressing different goals, new “whys” to work.

If we are working towards different goals, skills sets, and eventual application, our system of assessment should adapt to this evolution.