For better or for worse, the university education is moving into the curve.
No doubt, the technology particularly, Internet revolutionizes
the way we process and search for information. It serves as a personal
informant and in some ways as a private teacher. With a wealth of knowledge
within our reach, many teachers are beginning to seek out the Internet as a
means to streamline the classroom experience.
While the Web serves as an excellent tool to distribute the gift
of knowledge, teachers should reconsider its use in the classroom before
committing a portion of the curriculum to it. Online homework, tests,
assignments and examinations provides many benefits to students, but its
function at times can hinder rather than provide a boon.
The manual way of grading pencil-and-paper assignments, tests
and terminal marks can often be a daunting task for academicians especially
when grading hundreds of papers.
Online examination does provide instantaneous feedback to the
students and makes grading considerably easier for the teacher, but it’s a
flawed system.
