Section outline

  • Welcome to your FLO Micro: Authentic and Alternative Assessment. 

    Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) MicroCourses are short, single-topic, hands-on, practical, and free. In one week you will have an opportunity to dip into the FLO experience and leave with something practical and useful for your own teaching practice.

    The course will be conducted with an asynchronous format from [DATE RANGE] with two (60-minute) synchronous sessions on the following dates.

    • [DATE] - Designing Assessment that Leads to Learning, Not Just Testing - [TIME]
    • [DATE]Self Assessment as a Tool for Learning - [TIME]


    By the end of this FLO MicroCourse you will be able to:

    • Outline the purpose of assessment in higher education
    • Explain authentic assessment.
    • Prioritize the evaluation of outcomes when designing assessment.
    • Choose from the variety of options for alternative assessment (portfolio, journal, non-disposable assignment, summary, viva voce, project, presentation, authentic task, self-assessment…etc.).

    This course will be led by [FACILITATOR INFORMATION]