{"id":74522,"date":"2021-03-12T09:27:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T14:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=74522"},"modified":"2021-03-12T09:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T14:28:49","slug":"4-tips-for-offering-online-exams-ofgang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/03\/12\/4-tips-for-offering-online-exams-ofgang\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Tips for Offering Online Exams [Ofgang]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techlearning.com\/how-to\/4-tips-for-offering-online-exams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>4 Tips for Offering Online Exams<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from techlearning.com by Erik Ofgang<br \/>\n<em>The University of New England, Australia has given more than 40,000 online exams over the past year, here\u2019s what they\u2019ve learned<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">UNE administrators are considering doing away with an exam period because it initially was created for logistical purposes. \u201cWe needed to have all the exam venues booked, and the desks and chairs moved in, and the supervisors ready in the papers there,\u201d Day says. \u201cNow we are able to hold exams, anywhere, anytime, any day. So why do we need an exam period? It&#8217;s allowing structural changes to the academic calendar, it gives us a few weeks per teaching period back for teaching, perhaps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Day says you can also incorporate elements of video and website exploration into your exam, opening up both the type of questions you ask and the type of answers students can provide.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"rethink-the-exam-structure-xa0\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Rethink the Exam Structure<\/strong> \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Switching from paper to online exams is an opportunity for instructors to reexamine the exams themselves, Day says. <strong>\u201cIt requires you to question why you hold exams, why you hold exams when you do, and how you hold exams.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 Tips for Offering Online Exams &#8212; from techlearning.com by Erik Ofgang The University of New England, Australia has given more than 40,000 online exams over the past year, here\u2019s what they\u2019ve learned Excerpt (emphasis DSC): UNE administrators are considering doing away with an exam period because it initially was created for logistical purposes. \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,318,115,302,3,825,87,62,173,196,50,188,214,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment","category-australia","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-higher-education","category-law-schools","category-learning-spaces","category-online-learning","category-pedagogy","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-teaching-learning","category-teaching-online","category-universities","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74522"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74527,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74522\/revisions\/74527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}