Name: Reinventing assessment as an open educational practice: an experience in a posgraduate course in Uruguay
Start: 2026-10-09T16:15:00-0400
End: 2026-10-09T16:30:00-0400

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Reinventing assessment as an open educational practice: an experience in a posgraduate course in Uruguay

Friday October 9, 2026 4:15pm - 4:30pm EDT

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In this presentation, we address the course "Assessment: a general perspective and a focus on the classroom," which is part of the Specialization and Master's Program in Didactics of Higher Education (Instituto Educación, Universidad CLAEH).Since its original version, which I have been responsible for since 2015, the proposal has evolved over time, particularly following its redesign into a fully online format due to the health emergency (2020). As we will describe in this communication, the course's evolution reflects a growing openness, both in my own teaching practice regarding assessment and in the associated involvement of its participants, who engage as peer colleagues and protagonists in their own assessment and the overall experience.The course’s guiding threads seek to foster in participants the development of an assessment model oriented toward learning, grounded in informed, well-founded reflection on theory and classroom practice. The module is organized around assessment in university classrooms; this theme is present not only in the content but also serves as a foundational pillar in the development of activities and feedback, as part of continuous assessment within a participatory, collaborative, and critically reflective approach that runs throughout the course. The course design interweaves different frameworks: on the one hand, the didactic model, inspired by teaching for understanding; on the other, the design of online teaching, strongly influenced by collaborative learning and learning communities (Czerwonogora, 2025). This articulation generates a novel framework that combines theoretical perspectives expressed through situated praxis. Assessment and feedback are central throughout the course's trajectory, in a constant back-and-forth between theory and reflection on participants’ teaching practices, as well as the collaborative construction of a "task situated in a real context" with peer assessment.In keeping with my commitment to the open movement and the aim of providing a transparent and collaborative learning experience (open teaching, Couros, 2010), the course also promotes critical consumption of content, the use of free and/or open-source tools and software, the incorporation of open licenses, and the synthesis of knowledge through the shared development of learning networks. For students, the experience proves to be "demanding, engaging, ethical, intense, dizzying, different, yet highly enriching; challenging, yet empowering"; it fosters "constant critical reflection and encourages creativity in my thinking."This reinvention of assessment presented here is grounded in an expansive conceptualization of open educational practices, allowing for multiple points of access and pathways to openness (Cronin & MacLaren, 2018). The broad definition of OEP underlying this proposal does not rely on the inclusion of open educational resources. Rather, it is expressed as emancipatory praxis (Grundy, 1987) that challenges the traditional approach to assessment in teaching practices.

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Ada Czerwonogora

Universidad CLAEH (Centro Latinoamericano de Economía Humana)

She holds a PhD in Natural Sciences (Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo) and a PhD in Philosophy (Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación) from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina; a Master's degree in Virtual Learning Environments (Universidad de Panam... Read More →

Friday October 9, 2026 4:15pm - 4:30pm EDT
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