[LINK] Use of internet in school exams

[Tom Worthington]

At 06:57 AM 20/08/2008, Sylvano wrote:
>Phone a friend in exams, SMH... Anna Patty, Education Editor, August 
>20, 2008 ...

I conducted an "open book" web based examination in a short, 
non-credit course for public servants using Moodle at ANU last year. 
The topic was the web, so it seemed reasonable to let the students 
use the web: <http://tomw.net.au/moodle/mod/assignment/view.php?id=135>.

This was conducted in a computer equipped classroom, not remotely 
over the Internet. So I could wander around to see that the students 
were not purchasing their answers by subcontracting via Amazon's 
mechanical turk <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk>.  ;-)

How the course was organized and why is at 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/labels/How%20to%20Create%20On-line%20University%20Courses%20in%20Electronic%20Archiving.html>.

I have decided this is the way education should be and have told my 
university colleagues I am NOT GIVING ANY MORE LECTURES: 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2008/08/my-last-lecture.html>.

The topic is being discussed at the University of Canberra's Learning 
& Teaching Week, 9-12 September, 2008: 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2008/08/online-teaching-in-canberra.html>.

It also gets a mention in the Wikiversity 
<http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Lecture_2.0>.



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