Examples from practice
Key words: Portfolio, facilitator, group work, creativity, collaboration with companies
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Suna Løwe Nielsen, Associate professor, MSc in Economics and Business Administration – International Business and Management Department of Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management |
Key words: MCQ and portfolio, Blackboard, peer feedback
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Malene Grubbe Hildebrant, Post doc. Institute of Clinical Research, OUH |
Key words: Active participation, e-tivities, Blackboard, Adobe Connect, presentation
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Anette Grønning, Associate professor, PhD, MA in International Business and Linguistic Informatics Department for Cultural Studies |
Key words: Active participation, oral presentation, verbal- and non-verbal communication
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Helle Alrø, Professor Department of Communications Aalborg University |
Digitisation
Which questions lend themselves to digitisation of the type of exam? What is the effect of digitisation on the other dimensions? What opportunities are there for going digital – and what are the associated advantages and disadvantages?
| ASSESSMENT METHODS | DIGITISATION | |
| MCQ and similar tests | Can minimise costs of marking. Risk of cheating is minimised if a lot of questions are used. | |
| Written invigilated exam without aids | Problematic and demanding in terms of resources. Risk of cheating. Possibility of checking digital answers for plagiarism. | |
| Written invigilated exam with aids | Fairly demanding in terms of resources. Risk of cheating. Possibility of checking digital answers for plagiarism. | |
| Written paper | Possibility of checking digital answers for plagiarism. | |
| Portfolio | Opportunity for the portfolio to incorporate electronic elements, e.g. audio and images. Easy distribution. | |
| Logs | Offers the opportunity for the log to incorporate electronic elements, e.g. audio, images, film. | |
| Internship report | Allows for inclusion of audio and video documentation, for example. | |
| Oral exam/Viva without preparation | Option of “remote examination”. | |
| Oral exam/Viva with preparation without aids | Option of “remote examination”. | |
| Oral exam/Viva with preparation and aids | Option for the exam to include electronic elements, and PowerPoint presentations, for example. | |
| Student presentations | Opportunity to use digital media as part of the presentation. The actual presentation can be given digitally. | |
| Objective structured clinical exam | Enables electronic media to be incorporated, e.g. audio and simulations. | |
| Practical test | Can potentially be taken at a different location and recorded digitally. | |
| Active participation | Opportunity to introduce wikis and blogs, for example, as elements of active participation. | |
| Oral presentation based on synopsis | The synopsis can be submitted digitally. Option of testing for plagiarism. | |
| Written paper with oral defence | Opportunity to test for plagiarism. | |
| Portfolio and oral exam | Opportunity for the portfolio to incorporate electronic elements, e.g. audio and images. | |
| Project exam | Opportunity to test for plagiarism. | |