Assessments of learning are either formal (resulting in a score that impacts the student's grade) or informal (to guide the learning activities). In online courses quizzes and exams and their validity is always a hotly debated subject, there is really not much difference in the blended learning realm.
Quizzes or exams that are automatically graded and "easy" for the instructor have a tendency to elicit cheating. Subjective analysis of assessments are more time consuming for the instructor, but are typically more difficult for students to cheat on.
I like the idea of a one sentence summary where students must be concise in explaining the who, what, where, why, when, how of the given unit. In addition to being done easily in an online discussion board, it could be easily sent as a Tweet at the end of a live class session. The summaries would be quite quick to read through (for a moderately sized class of less than 40 students) and would give the instructor a sense of the overall understanding of the concepts amongst students.
Much of the other content of this chapter (Chapter 3 of the BlendKit Reader) was not new to me. It is still good information, just not earth-shattering in my world.
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