Bernard Bull. Full course description
Why do so many schools use letter grades? Where did they come from? What do they tell us and fail to tell us about the learners? What is the relationship between letter grades, student learning, and assessment?
This six-week course will allow participants to carefully consider the history, benefits, limitations, and alternatives to using letter grades in learning environments. It will include reflection about the role of formative and summative assessment, strategies for leveraging technology for assessment, as well as exploration of authentic and alternative assessments. Other topics will include peer assessment, badges, self-assessment, and a variety of feedback sources in learning environments. As a way to develop a deeper understanding of the subject, participants will experiment with different forms of assessment and examine a variety of real world examples of learning organizations that do not use letter grades.
This course is designed for individuals who aspire to work in a variety of learning organizations. Prior knowledge about curriculum development and designing lessons or learning experiences is helpful, but not required. Students will have an opportunity to earn digital badges in this course.

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer que le projet Effets Durables débutera le 1er octobre 2013.
C'est le premier « MOOC participatif » du développement durable et des alternatives pour le monde.
Prévoyez de participer – chacun de nous est concerné ! Cela se passe sur Internet et c'est gratuit.
Qu'est-ce qu'un MOOC ?
Dans un MOOC (pour « Massive Open Online Course »), les participants peuvent contribuer de façon libre : lire, écrire, échanger, … dans des espaces interactifs sur Internet où chacun peut être à la fois apprenant, intervenant et créateur.
Un MOOC participatif (« connectiviste », voir la vidéo : http://www.youtube.com/) encourage l'échange et la discussion autour de thématiques et de sujets mis en ligne. Ceux-ci sont des points de départ pour votre réflexion, tandis que les activités initiales proposées sont des « déclencheurs ».
Le MOOC « Effets Durables » sera de ce type. Vous échangerez entre vous et avec les animateurs. Vous pourrez lire, commenter, publier et diffuser des ressources. Il s'adresse à des personnes autonomes et motivées souhaitant travailler dans une dynamique collective d'échanges, d'apprentissage et de « co-création ».
Aucune formation préalable n'est nécessaire.
Le temps à consacrer aux activités du projet est au libre choix de chaque participant, de même que les périodes de connexion au MOOC.

By Iman Salehian. The class site is live, the discussion forums are active and the first video lectures have been posted. It's official-- I am participating in my very first online course here at UCLA. While I am an English undergrad, my digital humanities interests (and let's face it--lingering GE requirements) have led me to enroll in Geography 7, Michael Shin's Introduction to GIS. More...

By Anne Cong-Huyen. The following was originally posted at my personal blog.
Below is the talk I gave as part of a roundtable on race in the digital humanities at CESA2013. It really should have included "Being a Woman of Color in the digital humanities" as part of the title, but much of the presentation was a result of observations I made as the conference approached, and not what I actually wrote in the abstract. I do eventually get to the Asian Am projects toward the end. I also have to admit that this isn't really the kind of talk I'd give at a "DH" conference (you'll see why), but there is safety in a space like CESA that we cannot underestimate, and hence the confessions came out when and where they did. (Hopefully, this doesn't get a ton of people all mad at me!) More...