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Stephen Downes

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I have long predicted that teaching and assessment would become two separate things. Now, three huge technology companies - Cisco, Intel and Microsoft - are working on a system that would automate, and liberate, testing. "The project aims to develop a computer-based assessment system that could be adopted around the world and would test students' knowledge in cross-disciplinary problems, spelling the end of closed-book exams testing students' memory." How would our schools and universities operate if they were no longer granted a monopoly in the determination of whether or not a person has learned? It's too easy to simply say such a testing system would be impossible. We have to think of the consequences of such a system. Via Albert Ip.

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