Event regrettable cancelled

Visiting Scholar Seminar 2009 - 23 November

Dr Terry Anderson
Professor & Canada Research Chair in Distance Education Athabasca University

‘A Conversation with Terry Anderson: networks, groups and the collective in online education’

Visiting Scholar Seminars 2008

Professor Geoffrey Crisp
Centre for Learning and Professional Development
University of Adelaide

Interactive e-Assessment: more than just multiple-choice

This session offers an opportunity to explore innovative practice in online assessment. The work is based on the Carrick Associate Fellowship (now the Australian Learning and Teaching Council) project and describes how teachers can prepare interactive computer-based assessments using tools such as browser plugins, java applets, QuickTime VR and Flash.

The aim of the project is to assist teachers to move beyond simple multiple choice questions to provide much richer, authentic and meaningful assessment tasks for students. Discipline examples may be viewed at http://andy.services.adelaide.edu.au/moodle/

About the presenter

Geoff completed his Honours Degree (First Class) at the University of Queensland in 1977 and his PhD in Chemistry at the Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, in 1981. After postdoctoral work in Mulheim an der Ruhr in Germany (Humboldt Fellow); Colorado State University, USA and back at ANU in Canberra; he began his first academic appointment in 1985 in the Chemistry Department at the University of Melbourne. In 1988 he moved to the Chemistry Department at the University of Adelaide and continued discipline research and teaching until 2001.

Geoff developed his passion for learning and teaching as well as continuing his work in chemistry during this time, being Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching for the Faculty of Science from 1999 to 2001. He was actively involved in the development of online learning and was appointed the Director of the Online Learning and Teaching Unit in 2001 to oversee the implementation of the university online system (MyUni). Geoff made the permanent move to educational and staff development and online learning when he was appointed the Director of the Centre for Learning and Professional Development in 2002.

Selected publications

Crisp, G. (2007).The e-Assessment Handbook. London: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Crisp, G. (2002). Using Java Applets to Help Make Online Assessment Interactive. In A. Williamson, C. Gunn, A. Young, & T. Clear (Eds.), Winds of Change in the Sea of Learning: Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) (vol. 2, pp. 799–802). Available at http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/auckland02/proceedings/papers/096.pd

If you are interested in hosting Geoff please contact the Secretary.