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smarter learningProfessor Hamish Coates
www.acer.edu.au/highereducation
www.acer.edu.au/smarterlearning
Pressures on higher education• Cost and pricing
• Transparency and privatisation
• Diversification and stratification
• Curriculum and provision
• Students and academics
The smarter learning imperative
• Higher education strategic landscape is changing, radically
• Emerging hybrid business models that reconfigure core business: “New HE”
• New institutional ecosystems are emerging—many in this time zone
• As getting-in gets easier, getting-out gets harder• Engineering an engaged experience and
assessing learning outcomes are final frontierswww.acer.edu.au/smarterlearning
For instance…
•Shrink wrapped tasks•Collaborative item libraries•Stand-alone tests•Training academics•Task review/benchmarking•Process/data moderation
For instance…
•Student surveys•Focus groups•Activity data•Retention•Stakeholder surveys
Engaged learning experience
Assessing learning outcomes
Boosting capacity and data
Building assessment capacityFor leaders• Auditing assessment strategies and resources• Determining assessment priorities and needs• Defining academic standards and performance indicators For educators• Learning how to write better assessment materials• Interpreting assessment data to improve teaching• Helping teachers shape feedback to students• Certifying assessment capability For administrators• Planning assessment cycles • Improving delivery mechanisms• Optimising resources for assessment
Developing assessment materialsDeveloping materials• Drafting and refining content frameworks with experts• Producing high quality assessment materials and marking guides• Validating materials with experts, stakeholders and students
Preparing systems• Readying computer or paper delivery systems• Setting up marking and verification systems• Designing reports and feedback procedures
Deploying, marking and reporting• Supporting deployment to students• Psychometric analysis of assessment data• Detailed reporting to students, teaching staff and institutions
Providing standardised testsSelection and admissions• Generic skills aptitude tests• Discipline-specific aptitude tests• Assessment of cognitive readiness for tertiary study
Diagnosis• Measure cognitive skills of enrolling students• Determine learning needs• Establish English language proficiency
Outcomes assessment• General professional skills + discipline skills + context• Reports to students and institutions and/or systems
Global Graduate Passport®
General professional skills + discipline skills + context
Culturally and linguistically adapted to system contexts
Secure online delivery to your students
Detailed reports to students and institutions
Next moves
Implementing SESME
Deploying the Global Graduate Passport®
To keep in contact:
www.acer.edu.au/smarterlearning