The TALOE Partnership announces a series of webinars entitled “Talks on E-assessment and Learning Outcomes” organised by one of the partners, University Computing Centre SRCE. The first lecture of this series is to be held on 21st January 2015 starting at 11.00 CET with the title of “Content analysis and critical thinking – An assessment study” by Antonella Poce, researcher and lecturer in experimental pedagogy at the University Roma Tre, Italy. She is going to speak about the project of the University Roma Tre that constructed a model to increase critical thinking skills and ways how to evaluate them.

The monthly series is suggested for educators, educational developers, staff in learning support and those with responsibility for the management and quality assurance of assessment with the aims of:

• putting in focus the learning outcomes and assessment methods in e-learning;
• helping teachers and trainers decide on the e-assessment tools and processes;
• enhancing the quality of the education process and improving student’s learning experience;
• encouraging the academic community to network, exchange experience and to cooperate.

You can comment the first topic and put questions to the presenter in advance here.

Participants can join the webinar at https://connect.srce.hr/taloe_webinars/ without previous registration.

EUA (European University Association) intends to discuss the issue of recognizing open learning at universities during the webinar entitled “Universities recognizing open learning: Are we approaching the worldwide open learning area?” on 17 December 14.00-15.10. The main topic will be whether skills learned in non-formal settings can be validated and awarded formal credentials, and how practice and experience with MOOC learning are likely to impact higher education learning and teaching in the future. You can register for the webinar at the latest by 16 December 15.00 CET via the following link. Participation is open to all members of EUA and EFQUEL (European Foundation for Quality in e-Learning).

Speakers will be Andreia Inamorato dos Santos (Joint Research Centre Sevilla), Kris Olds (University Madison Wisconsin), Kevin Guillaume (ENIC/NARIC and representative of Belgium/Wallonia in the BFUG) and Anthony Camilleri (VM-Pass project). Alastair Creelman (Linnaeus University, Sweden, and EFQUEL) will be the webinar moderator.

Click here for further information on the speakers. For any further information, please contact [email protected].

You may access the recording of the previous webinar “Universities recognizing open learning: What does it take – what does it change” – focusing more on focused on university practice and experience with MOOC learning here.