This is the final project for the course, EDUC 762 - Assessment in E-Learning -- taken online during spring semester at University of Wisconsin - Stout. The task of this final project is to create an online course, develop learning objectives based on Bloom's Taxonomy, and describe how we would incorporate four different assessment tools into this course to help students meet the learning objectives. We also need to address the issues of authenticity, diversity, student-centered learning and plagiarism as they occur throughout this course.

    As a high school technology teacher, I was having a difficult time trying to figure out how to take the requirements and objectives for this final project and use them to create something meaningful and authentic. My final decision for this  project came from an article I read by Dr. Datta Kaur Khalsa (2001). She states that, "When a student or group of students has the opportunity to immediately apply learning, unifying the technology usage and future life plans with a concurrent life experience, the learning intentions become more evident and the motivation towards excellence and completion are exhilarated (p. 8).  This statement helped me to decide to modify a class that I am currently teaching at the American School of Dubai. 

     When I first arrived in Dubai eight years ago, Desktop Publishing was the only established technology class being offered at the school. It was my task to come up with a comprehensive technology curriculum that would meet the needs of all of the high school students. Each year I have been at ASD I have added a new course, changed the curriculum of an existing course to meet more current technology standards, or modified the assessment activities of a course to reflect best practices. As I prepare to move on to a new job as an elementary technology integration specialist at Shanghai American School next year, I will take this opportunity to improve one final course by including more student-centered activities, collaborative work, authentic learning, and self and peer assessment. The course I have chosen to improve is Web Design.  Instead of adapting this course into a complete online experience, though, I will modify it to include more online assessment activities to increase student learning and to create a more collaborative classroom environment. I will incorporate activities at all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy to help prevent plagiarism, which is a problem at our school.