| Title | Sustainable migration to digital assessments at scale |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Science |
| Status | Active |
| Duration | 2 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2024 |
| Project Summary | Providing students with high quality, timely, and useful feedback on assessments is one of the most important responsibilities of teaching teams. This is particularly difficult in large classes where logistical issues of scale prevent adoption of good pedagogy. For example, administering, grading, and handing back assessments to students in large classes is an extremely laborious task which is a significant barrier to more frequent testing. During the emergency shift to online teaching in 2020, many faculty members got a small taste of what teaching could be like with digital assessments. With this proposal, we intend for classes to sustainably adopt open digital assessments in the face of generative AI, mounting faculty workloads, and large class sizes. Most importantly, we aim to build capacity within departments for other courses to subsequently migrate to digital assessments, in preparation for the upcoming senate policy prohibiting fee-based digital learning tools for assessment (V-131: https://senate.ubc.ca/files/V-131-Fee-Based-Digital-Learning-Tools-Used-for-Assessment.pdf). |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2024/2025 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Firas Moosvi |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 30,000 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Firas Moosvi, Lecturer, Computer Science, Faculty of Science |