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Welcome to On Assessment, an open-educational resource (OER) created by the very first cohort of Special Topics in Assessment, a seven-week, fully online, (mostly) asynchronous, elective course in the Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (TLHE) certificate program at Centennial College in Toronto, Canada.

Launched in the winter of 2021 (in this year of COVID), Special Topics in Assessment was designed to bring members of the Centennial College community together as colleagues and collaborators — to offer them an inviting, open and safe virtual space where they would be able to engage with one another in a time of social distancing and isolation. Through their course of study, Special Topics in Assessment students have been challenged to think more deeply about the “why” of assessments — and to consider how we might make assessments more meaningful for students and teachers alike in the semesters and years to come.

Special Topics in Assessment is a unique course offering that is based upon five foundational — and assessment-related — concepts. These are: being curious (demonstrated by working through critical pedagogy), embracing the open (achieved through an exploration of open pedagogy), exercising choice (exercised through inquiry-based learning), being brave (harnessing what Amy Collier and Jen Ross (2015) have described as the concept of “not-yetness”) and awareness (expressed through the process of critical reflection).

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