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ERIC Number: ED594398
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Dec
Pages: 19
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Towards a Model for Assessment in an Information and Technology-Rich 21st Century Learning Environment. Occasional Paper #37
Cronjé, Johannes
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
The question driving this paper is: "What should we assess if learners can Google the answers on their mobile devices?" If "Learning" is defined as "being able to do something afterwards that you could not do before," the problem is that technology now enables us to do many things which we were not able to do before, by simply using an app such as a GPS or "Google translate." Nevertheless the actual learning is still hard to define. The person with the best technology and who can use it might fare best. It is not just the individual learners that learn, it is the whole system, including the devices that they use, and the cloud to which the device are connected, that learns. The constraint has shifted from our ability to provide learners with information to learners' ability to process and use information. The locus of learning has shifted from the learner to the rhizome. We should shift the emphasis from evaluating learners' "collection" of knowledge to evaluating their "connection" to the system.
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Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
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