EASiHE Project Events

This page provides information about the EASiHE Workshops, Meetings and Other events.

Easihe Assembly: Workshop on Higher Learning Skills and Good Feedback

University of Southampton, 10th Feb. 2009. Organiser: David Bacigalupo

We held this workshop with participants from the University of Reading, University of Portsmouth, the JISC SSBR project, the JISC-Southampton eAssignment project as well as The University of Southampton School of Health Professionals, School of Medicine, School of Electronics and Computer Science and iSolutions. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss and agree good practice for creating formative assessments for higher order learning skills that give outstanding, computer generated feedback. The workshop was lead by an external consultant and included both talks and interactive sessions.

• For general information please see the programme, see the assembly page on the EASiHE wiki and the SSBR write-up
• The slides are available: Theoretical underpinnings and general pointers (Lester Gilbert, Bill Warburton and Veronica Gale), and Lessons learned from project managing high volume e-assessment (David Bacigalupo)

Writing effective e-assessments:Hints and tips from practitioners. Following the successful EASiHE Assembly this EASiHE booklet has been put together by the EASiHE team. We have drawn on advice from experts around the UK, including the guidance generated during the EASiHE Assembly.

Easihe Workshop with Feasst outcomes: Effective feedback and mobile technology

University of Southampton, 14th September 2009. Organiser: David Bacigalupo

We held this workshop with participants from the Institute of Education (London) and the University of Southampton. Material covered included a literature review of approaches to formative eAssessment feedback and a socio-cultural ecology of mobile learning as well as an overview of the EASiHE approach.

The workshop included the following talks:

• Norbert Pachler slides 1 Scoping a Vision for Formative e-Assessment - Feedback; Findings from the literature review
• Norbert Pachler slides 2 A socio-cultural ecology of mobile learning

• David Bacigalupo: Demo of EASiHE work (please see the EASiHE Case study details document on the EASiHE website for more recent EASiHE screencast demos.)

Easihe Workshop on a Participatory Methodology for the Development of Design Patterns and Application to Formative e-Assessment

University of Southampton, 22nd October 2009. Organiser: David Bacigalupo

We held this workshop with participants from the Institute of Education (London) and the University of Southampton. Topics included introducing the IOE pattern workshop methodology and the results of using this methodology in the UK HE sector.

• For more information please see the workshop slides (Niall Winters and Yishay Mor) and the overview information

Easihe Advisory Board Meetings

• With senior University of Southampton staff: Ian Tebbett, Hugh Davis, Ian Giles, Pete Hancock as well as the EASiHE team
• Organiser: David Bacigalupo
• Meeting 1: July 2009
• Meeting 2: August 2009
• Meeting 3: February 2010

JISC Innovation Exchange

• The overview, software, case studies and reports EASiHE posters presented at the JISC Innovation Exchange 28-28 January 2010, Birmingham, UK. (We also presented information about our workshops - see section on the EASiHE homepage.)
• We gave a 2 hour trade stall on EASiHE (David Bacigalupo and Bill Warburton)