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Creating online work as part of university courses enjoys growing popularity and enthusiasm. University of Mary Washington, CUNY and Penn State have the richest environments for web publishing as part of the academic experience. Yet, the tools existing to assess online work continue to rely on 20th century technologies of email, word processors, and even paper. | Creating online work as part of university courses enjoys growing popularity and enthusiasm. University of Mary Washington, CUNY and Penn State have the richest environments for web publishing as part of the academic experience. Yet, the tools existing to assess online work continue to rely on 20th century technologies of email, word processors, and even paper. | ||
Drawing inspiration from Zotero, Rubrick aims to address that gap by providing an in-browser mechanism for assessing online work. While at first glance it seems like a tool to ease and simplify faculty work -- and it is -- it more fundamentally improves student learning in the following ways: | Drawing inspiration from [http://zotero.org Zotero], Rubrick aims to address that gap by providing an in-browser mechanism for assessing online work. While at first glance it seems like a tool to ease and simplify faculty work -- and it is -- it more fundamentally improves student learning in the following ways: | ||
1. Rubrick allows evaluation rubrics to be shared and reused, and so facilitates normalizing of rubric evaluations. So, for example, a teacher will be able to allow all students to use the same rubric to assess example work, and discuss the results in class. This lets the teacher and students get on the same page about what the rubric evaluates and how. | 1. Rubrick allows evaluation rubrics to be shared and reused, and so facilitates normalizing of rubric evaluations. So, for example, a teacher will be able to allow all students to use the same rubric to assess example work, and discuss the results in class. This lets the teacher and students get on the same page about what the rubric evaluates and how. | ||