Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Room KOL-G-212
2 x 45 minutes
Benjamin Eugster, ZHAW
One of the biggest challenges of the digital turn in higher education is the increasing gap between students' learning practice and the way in which they are assessed. In particular, exams still represent a refugium for analogue practices that are in stark contrast to the methodologies of digital learning. This hinders especially more innovative types of exams like open book exams that are confronted with the difficulty of how to allow students to use their digital personal notes, useful online documentation, etc.
The hands-on workshop will demonstrate how digital exams with the Safe Exam Browser (SEB) can facilitate the use of digital course material and notes during open book exams. With new features of the Safe Exam Browser students have the possibility to write a test on their LMS while they are at the same time given access to an external cloud service (e.g. SWITCHdrive) which contains relevant course material and their individual notes. Participants need to bring their own device (ideally with administrator privilege or a pre-installed version of Safe Exam Browser) to the session.