The requirement for identification is that students must prove their identity and have elements of oral presentation. But not for every examination task in a course and not in all courses. How do you do it?
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Effective study environment online
How to design an online course in practice? In this short video, we’ll outline four principles that guide you in setting up a working study environment that let students focus on the important stuff: Their learning.
Continue reading “Effective study environment online”Tips: Careless essays with “formal errors”
Examining essays create troublesome extra work for tutors and examiners when the essay is carelessly proofread, with formal errors of various kinds. Here is an example of how to use a checklist to support students’ proofreading, reduce extra work for the teacher and get better essays.
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Research in the field of Behavioral Economics shows that the tendency to cheat decreases when you are forced to explicitly state that you have not done so, especially if the declaration is made first, before submitting something.
Continue reading “Tips: Discourage from cheating through a scary, mandatory declaration”Tips: Playing Doctor’s office – Identity check in Zoom
How do we check the identity of students when the examination is online? And how do you do it in an efficient manner?
Continue reading “Tips: Playing Doctor’s office – Identity check in Zoom”Tips: Exam questions based on short case descriptions
The goal here is to influence study strategies to involve more in-depth learning by use of short case descriptions. As a beneficial side-effect, systematically constructed case descriptions can be used to function as the basis for a large and useful material of examination questions.
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Overview of advantages and disadvantages of oral exams online. And some strategies for good questions.
Continue reading “Tips: Oral exams online”Tips: Vary the context of the question. An example.
How do one design exam questions that can be varied to make plagiarism more difficult, but still test students in an equivalent way? An example.
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