[LINK] Use of internet in school exams

Liddy Nevile liddy at sunriseresearch.org
Fri Aug 22 11:02:07 AEST 2008


open everything -

for what it's worth, I studied law in the '60s and this is how our  
exams were conducted. I cannot believe it has taken so long for  
someone to have the courage to 'out' the idea - well done, I say!

Liddy

On 22/08/2008, at 9:12 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:

>
> 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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