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Analysing the world market for coffee
Here is an example of an open-book, open-web, final assessment used in an MBA macroeconomics subject. Note that some links are not accessible to the public as they require a student login to a...
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Free trade between the US and Australia
This example assessment item includes audio links (using RealOne Player). It focuses on the deliberations over the proposed free trade agreement between the United States and Australia.
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Final exams – a manifesto for change
Click here to download a 15 slide PowerPoint presentation that puts forward the case for the abandonment of unrealistically timed, closed-book, invigilated, final examinations.
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Creating open book open web exams
I presented a paper on a methodology for authoring open book open web exams recently at the 2004 ASCILITE conference in Perth. A pdf version of my PowerPoint slides is available here.
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OBOW design principles
I gave a seminar today at U21G on OBOW (open book, open-web) examination design principles. The ppt file is pretty large (7.55MB), so I have also saved it in pdf format (still big at 2.51MB!). The main...
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OBOW exams at Wharton
This blog was pointed out me recently by Wing Lam which shows that OBOW-type exams are not something exclusive to U21Global.
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Beyond critical thinking
Michael Wesch of A Vision of Students Today fame gave a TEDx talk last year that I revisited the other day when I found myself (frustratingly) having to justify the case for authentic assessment. “But...
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Universities and the Brave New Academic World
Image source: telegraph.co.uk An article published in the UK Sunday Times at the weekend and republished in The Australian yesterday adds another name to the growing band of influential figures...
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The Five Minute University
This classic clip from a Father Guido Sarducci stand up routine was shown a couple of times as a conference I attended recently. Unfortunately, this caricature of the extent and depth of learning at...
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Want to eliminate cheating? Ask better questions
There was an excellent piece in The Conversation a week or so ago written by Beverley Oliver (@DVCEdDeakin) entitled, Proving knowledge by degrees: MOOCs and the challenge of assessment. The reference...
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