NA3T5 - DematerialisationUtrecht, 05.03.2012

Magnus Strømdal, UNINETT

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Dematerialisation

It's about the use of electronic tools to cut back on the use of paper and other resources :-)

“Digital exams”

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Exams

This is just an example, lets do some mathematics:

Small institution 25.000 students

Each students take 4 exams This makes 100.000 exams a

year Average exams produce 15

sheets of paper (the exam, the answer, the cover)

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More Math.

Makes 4.500.000 sheets of paper

One box of paper contains 2.500 sheets, this makes 1.800 boxes of paper

It's 48 boxes on pallet, 1.800 boxes makes 37,5 pallet of paper

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More Math.

Have to make 3 copies of all the answers

It takes one minute to make the copies

To copy 100.000 exams, takes about 208 day or one full time employe :-)

1/3 of the copies have to be shipped to an external examiner (10 pallets)

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UNINETT eCampus project

It's about tools to support education

Distance education Recording of lectures Web-based meeting tools VC “Distributed education” “Digital exams”

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“Digital exams”

UNINETT plan to start an workgroup on “Digital exams”

Exchange experience Run some pilots Security Software control (allowed

software) PC/Mac/iPad/+++ VC/Skype/webmeeting

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Status “Digital exams”

Students ask for digital exams Universal access requirements Several educations want to

move to more advanced ways of doing exams.

Several Norwegian universities have started work on “digital exams”

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Challenges of “Digital exams”

Security (anonymous answers, independent examiners)

Scaling (100.000 exams) Archiving of answers

(printouts or pdf's) Publishing of exams, how to

publish advanced “Digital exams”

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Implementasjon:

Database

Web-server

Professors

Studentsexaminer

Archiving

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Sekvensielle skriftlige eksamener:

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hypotese

undersøkelse

diagnose?

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ja behandling

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