Key features for implementing a Harvesting Gradebook

In working on our DML competition entry, I found myself enumerating the features we’ve found important to our Harvesting Gradebook work. The Harvesting Gradebook consists of a web-based survey that can be embedded in, or linked from, link to, or embed within itself a piece of work that is to be evaluated by a reviewer [...]

More Back@U mockups and an example application

We just discovered that Jason B. Jones has a proof of concept mashup of a Google form with Diigo using a Firefox extension to put both on a split screen. The emphasis seems to be more on grading, but it has a nice place to give suggestions for future work. We had previously tried making [...]

Status Update: From Harvesting Gradebook to Learning Outcomes Assessment

The Cal State University system has been holding an internal series of webinars on ways to integrate and assess general education, including the use of ePortfolios, the VALUE rubrics, and themes like “sustainability.” By invitation we just presented a summary of the harvesting gradebook and beyond Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:00-11:00 a.m. Draft abstract WSU [...]

POD 2009 Innovation Award Application

The item below is a nice synthesis of our thinking on the last 18 months of work in the Harvesting Gradebook. It was developed as a Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD) Award application for the 2009 competition. Author Contact Information Gary Brown, Theron DesRosier, Jayme Jacobson, Corinna Lo, Nils Peterson Center [...]

Crowd sourcing to support learning at all levels of the university

We are developing a response here to the article Duke Professor uses ‘Crowdsourcing’ to Grade by Erica Hendry  in the Chronicle. In our response (which for some reason did not appear as a comment to the Chronicle article but is reproduced in Cathy’s blog) we offered a survey that implements Gary Brown’s Harvesting Gradebook concept. [...]

Taking the Harvesting Gradebook to production

Last summer we took Gary’s Harvesting Gradebook idea from concept to implementation and during the school year we conducted two pilots in classes. Figure 1 is a diagram of the concept, showing how data can serve the needs of student, instructor and academic program. Here is a live demo you can try. One of our [...]

Harvesting feedback on a course assignment

This post demonstrates harvesting rubric-based feedback in a course, and how the feedback can be used by instructors and programs, as well as students. It is being prepared for a Webinar hosted by the TLT group. (Update 7/28: Webinar archive here. Minutes 16-36 are our portion. Minutes 24-31 are music while participants work on the [...]

Google gadgets for presenting data

One of the issues in learning in an era of information abundance is the need for tools to help visualize data. Examples of this are emerging including Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth andHans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen. Our experiments are more modest, using Google to graph data and share it, [...]

Earning credentials in a learning community

Recently David Eubanks has posted some thoughts on assessment and Gary Brown and I each followed up with comments. That led David to make this post summarizing (and re-broadcasting) the thinking we have been doing around a Harvesting Gradebook. David’s is a smaller and more personal example of an idea I’ve been exploring: learning communities [...]