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In praise of the open-book exam

IT Bill

Daffin and Jones offer yet one more option… A final possibility is to make online exams open notes/book from the start but increase the difficulty of such exams so that they are not simply testing the recollection of facts (Feller, 1994; Williams & Wong, 2009; Stowell, 2015). Online Learning, 22(1), 131-145.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) And efforts to crack down on providers offering “ bad online courses ” were often countered by lobbying from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which “has made expanding online learning — unfettered and in all of its forms — one of its priorities.”.

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