Learning

If you told me cheating is not easy during online examination, I most certainly would not have believed you. This is simply impossible to prevent cheating, after the move to virtual class and examination in front of a computer screen.

In the old days, we assessed students' grades according to midterm and final examination results, all of which were administered in persons. After months of lockdown three years ago, educators and students are getting used to online class. 

Should we or should we not allow students to take examination in front of a computer with a webcam and remote monitoring by a proctor? Well, if we trust that error-driven learning has powerful effect on memory, it really doesn't matter. As long as we actively learn by doing rather than passively learn by memorizing, we have made what we learned stick. In other words, even an open-book quiz online can give us opportunity to learn from our mistakes. The point of the quiz is to let us get close to the right answer, or get feedback for a wrong answer. 

That is the key to turbocharge our hippocampus, and retain much more information.