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Open Assessments and OERs

as Enablers in Competency-

Based Education

Demo for the X International UNESCO Chair Seminar

Tom Caswell, [email protected]

@tom4cam

Brandon Muramatsu, [email protected]

@bmuramatsu

mailto:[email protected]



Safe is risky.


Measuring education by learning, not time.

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What is Competency-Based Education?

Competency-based education (CBE)

awards academic credit based on mastery

of clearly defined competencies.

EDUCAUSE “7 Things you should know about competency-based education”


1. Emphasizes mastery and de-emphasizes time

2. Assessments/projects play a central role

3. Individualized support for learners

4. More flexibility and responsibility for learners

• Apply prior knowledge and experience

• Learning can be self-paced

Common Features of CBE


Who Is Doing It?


Learning is the new constant

Time varies.

Every student can succeed!

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Types of OER Content

• Videos

• Lectures

• Textbooks

• Webpages

• Assessments


Focus: Formative Assessment

• Check understanding / mastery of

concepts directly in course materials

• Primarily for formative (self-check,

understanding) not summative (exams or

formal assignments)


The Potential

• Do for assessments what’s been done for

content (courses, lectures, videos)

• Embed anywhere

• Share• Don’t reinvent the wheel for every course

• Evaluate, record and track responses• Scale –> More use of items/assessments for validity

• May lead to evidence of impact?


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What is OpenAssessments.org?

• Embed an assessment in any web content

• Focus on formative assessments

• Start with limited question types

• Multiple-choice/single answer

• Numerical answer

• Short answer


How do you use it?

• Create a question in a standardized format

• Typically using IMS Question & Test Interoperability

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• Likely created in your learning management system

• Put the question on a public web server

• Copy and paste the URL to the question file

• That’s it!


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But can we make it reusable?


Embedded in MIT OpenCourseWare


How it works

We pass a URL for the raw OLX code to the open assessments web application:

http://www.openassessments.com/assessments/load?utf8=✓src_url=http://…/courses/mathematics/18-05-introduction-to-probability-and-statistics-spring-2014/sequential/ps1.xml

And then to embed it in MIT OCW, we use an iframe:

<iframe style="width: 100%; height: 600px;" src="http://www.openassessments.com/assessments/load?utf8=✓&style=ocw&src_url=http://…/courses/mathematics/18-05-introduction-to-probability-and-statistics-spring-2014/sequential/ps1.xml">


Analytics (Mockup)


Related and Future Work

• Increasing use

• Open Item Banks

• Use in Lumen Learning-developed OER course

• Extending to additional MIT OCW courses

• Extending functionality

• Additional question types, especially parameterized/interactive

ones

• How will you use it? openassessments.org

http://openassessments.org/


Thank you for listening.

Tom Caswell, [email protected]

@tom4cam

Brandon Muramatsu, [email protected]

@bmuramatsu

