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Assessment Activity

The History Institute, University of Massachusetts / Amherst

Review and reflect on the websites that you explored today, looking specifically at questions of:

• Audience (Who is the site written for? What level of expertise -- content-based or technical -- is implied?)
  
  
• Engagement (How actively can users interact with the materials? How active is the learning process for users? What motivating factors are there to encourage users to utilize the site?)
  
  
• Exploration (Who controls encounters with the materials? Is this learner-driven to any extent? Is the website easy to navigate? Does the very navigation of the site provide the user with any important context-based lessons (e.g. pedagogical strategies)?)
  
  
• Authority (How does the site represent "truth" or a narrative story? Whose "truth" or narrative, is it?)
  
  
• Evidence (How are arguments laid out or supported? Is the user left to come to his own conclusions? Or is the user led to specific conclusions?)
  
  
• Pedagogy (Is there a pedagogical underpinning for the site? How evident/useful is it?)