The current scenario of Learning & Assessing
The world is constantly evolving and everything has changed multifold within a span of a year. Teaching, Learning, and Assessing have witnessed a lot of changes and impacts. The advancements of the digital learning & assessment platforms have had a huge impact on academic institutions and have eventually put the traditional pen & paper, in-person methods behind. There are still demands for both technological and old-school learning methods. This is giving a way to the blended/hybrid mode of learning & assessing. Universities & Schools fully realize the importance of both face-to-face engagement with the students and promoting digital enhancements in teaching-learning.
What is Hybrid Mode of Assessment?
Hybrid assessment refers to tests with a carefully planned blend of both traditional assessment and online examination activities. It combines the best of both, learning offline/online and examination online/offline. As the name suggests, this model gives students the freedom to attend classes in both online and offline modes. They are no longer required to travel to campus on a daily basis in order to attend examinations as it can be completed online. Along with the learning benefits, the hybrid mode of exams is also making it easier for more people to get quality education. That's because hybrid testing programs require only limited on-campus attendance, meaning that these tests are now more accessible to people across unreachable places. The students don't need to take several days' leave to appear for exams; rather they can appear for exams in their leisure hours
There are a few reasons why despite the comfort of online mode, there still is a need for blended testing:
01.
Connectivity Problems
Low bandwidths of Internet do not allow high-end tests to be easily conducted, which becomes a concern when it comes to evaluation.
02.
Lack of Equipment
Some students are not as well-to-do and have families with sole earners. These students often struggle for having a mobile phone that would support taking the test online, or a laptop/desktop.
03.
Digital Illiteracy
There still are faculties out there who are uncomfortable with learning new technologies to teach or assess students. Also, in some locations of the world, people are rarely digitally fluent.
How is Blended/Hybrid Mode of Learning going to help in the future?
There are multiple ways how Hybrid Exams & Learning are going to prove beneficial:
- Boosted student engagement
- Increased teacher-student interaction
- Responsible learning
- Managed Time & Flexibility
- Improved student outcomes
- Better self- and continuous learning
- Enhanced opportunities for experiential learning
- Better Allocation of Resources
- Analytically rich evaluations
- Quicker Results
- Simultaneous engagement & digital growth
Enabling Academic Continuity amid Technological Evolution
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