Book Review: Assessment Strategies for Online Learning: Engagement and Authenticity

Abstract

Book Review: Conrad, D. and Opreno, J. (2018). Assessment Strategies for Online Learning: Engagement and Authenticity. Athabasca: Athabasca University Press. Defining the evaluation taking as an epicentre the reflection that the students do is to go to the heart of the educational question. The key concept in which the authors insist, Dianne Conrad and Jason Opreno, is a way of understanding education that goes beyond critical thinking and metacognition, placing the student at the centre of the learning cycle and respecting and empowering their individuality. And, this is how online assessment strategies defend: from the contemporaneity and latest trends in online learning, training the student throughout the whole learning process and fostering the commitment to individual and collaborative learning.