TY - GEN
T1 - A new method for the creation of MOOC-ready database of test questions
AU - Beg, Azam
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Recently, there has been a wide interest in the massive open online courses (MOOCs) that are freely available to the students from all over the world. Due to the large scale of MOOCs, the instructors (even with their teams of graders) cannot assess all the examinations and quizzes themselves. Peer grading eases the assessment burden but has its shortcomings. Ideally, the assessments should be fully automated and should also allow partial grading. Additionally, a sizeable database of questions is needed so that an individual student or a group of students are not able to see all the questions by repeatedly attempting the quizzes. In this paper, we present a Matlab-based method for automatically generating a large number of questions and their (intermediate and final) answers for a MOOC or a traditional classroom-based course on digital circuit design. The method that enables formative assessment is also applicable to other courses in engineering and sciences.
AB - Recently, there has been a wide interest in the massive open online courses (MOOCs) that are freely available to the students from all over the world. Due to the large scale of MOOCs, the instructors (even with their teams of graders) cannot assess all the examinations and quizzes themselves. Peer grading eases the assessment burden but has its shortcomings. Ideally, the assessments should be fully automated and should also allow partial grading. Additionally, a sizeable database of questions is needed so that an individual student or a group of students are not able to see all the questions by repeatedly attempting the quizzes. In this paper, we present a Matlab-based method for automatically generating a large number of questions and their (intermediate and final) answers for a MOOC or a traditional classroom-based course on digital circuit design. The method that enables formative assessment is also applicable to other courses in engineering and sciences.
KW - Combinational logic
KW - Digital circuit design
KW - Distance learning
KW - E-learning
KW - Engineering education
KW - Formative assessment
KW - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
KW - Training
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U2 - 10.5220/0004950604920496
DO - 10.5220/0004950604920496
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84902320163
SN - 9789897580208
T3 - CSEDU 2014 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education
SP - 492
EP - 496
BT - CSEDU 2014 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education
PB - SciTePress
T2 - 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, CSEDU 2014
Y2 - 1 April 2014 through 3 April 2014
ER -