AN OPEN-ENDED ASSESSMENT PLATFORM IN A HOSTED E-LEARNING PORTAL

Patrick Stalljohann

2011

Abstract

Assessment activities play a central role in university courses. Assessment for learning during a semester can support students' performance and motivation, but needs a lot of time and effort for organizational issues. This paper presents a system which tries to combine generic applicability across different domains with the support of highly specialized processes and with the knowledge of specific domains. Portal Technologies are used to provide a university-wide hosting of assessment tools within a single architecture. The connection to cloud-services facilitates the integration of open assessment activities into formal assessment processes. A prototypical implementation demonstrates possible points of extension.

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Stalljohann P. (2011). AN OPEN-ENDED ASSESSMENT PLATFORM IN A HOSTED E-LEARNING PORTAL . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: ATTeL, (CSEDU 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-50-8, pages 392-401. DOI: 10.5220/0003474503920401


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Stalljohann P. (2011). AN OPEN-ENDED ASSESSMENT PLATFORM IN A HOSTED E-LEARNING PORTAL . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: ATTeL, (CSEDU 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-50-8, pages 392-401. DOI: 10.5220/0003474503920401


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author={Patrick Stalljohann},
title={AN OPEN-ENDED ASSESSMENT PLATFORM IN A HOSTED E-LEARNING PORTAL},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: ATTeL, (CSEDU 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={392-401},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003474503920401},
isbn={978-989-8425-50-8},
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@conference{attel11,
author={Patrick Stalljohann},
title={AN OPEN-ENDED ASSESSMENT PLATFORM IN A HOSTED E-LEARNING PORTAL},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: ATTeL, (CSEDU 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={392-401},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003474503920401},
isbn={978-989-8425-50-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: ATTeL, (CSEDU 2011)
TI - AN OPEN-ENDED ASSESSMENT PLATFORM IN A HOSTED E-LEARNING PORTAL
SN - 978-989-8425-50-8
AU - Stalljohann P.
PY - 2011
SP - 392
EP - 401
DO - 10.5220/0003474503920401