Assessing Student Learning Online: Overcoming Reliability Issues.

Assessing students in online university courses poses challenges to the reliability factor of the measures being utilized. Some programs have the latitude to incorporate proctored assessments, but this is not always practical in asynchronously structured courses reaching out across a broad geographic region. This paper explores digital audio and video outputs as viable student pontification alternatives.

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