Paper Technology, Flow in the Assessment
Task and Flow in the Interface
Wendy Fisher, COLMSCT Teaching Fellow and
members of the T175 Tablet PC Project Team
***COLMSCT Expert Forum***
Wendy Fisher, COLMSCT Teaching Fellow and members of the T175 Tablet PC
Project Team
Using ‘technology innovation’ to maintain effective strategies in assessment
pedagogy
Thursday 5th July 13:30 – 15:30, Meeting Room 8, 1st Floor, East Perry
This workshop will show how existing and new input devices can enable the lecturer in the
assessment task. It will also demonstrate the potential for the tablet PC in challenging assessment
areas such as scientific nomenclature, mathematical formulae and diagramming.
There will be:
 presentations
 a reflective ‘paper and pen’ assessment annotation task
 demonstrations
 opportunities to use the technology supported by members of the T175 Tablet PC project
team, who have between them two years experience of using this new technology in marking
electronic tutor marked assignments (eTMAs)
Please confirm your attendance for the afternoon session by emailing your details to Diane Ford at
COLMSCT-Centre@open.ac.uk by 14 June 07.
Centres for Excellence in Teaching & Learning
COLMSCT
There are a variety of different approaches to providing feedback in correspondence tuition. The
technologies used by the distance lecturer are changing. For example, paper and pen is being
replaced with keyboard and personal computer. Recent innovation in paper-like technologies such
as Tablet PCs allows the distance lecturer to use a pen input to annotate students’ assignments
directly with their feedback.