Exam 2.0 - Make Exam Online and Get Results Automatically

Now that the New Year’s Day hangovers are a thing of the past, it’s time to trade in the warm sofa for cold, hard desks as the spring semester approaches. As technology is developing so fast last year, Web 2.0, E-Learning, Mobile Learning and collaborative learning are changing the way we live, learn and teach. As a teacher in 21st century, how do you take the new technology to your classroom becomes a popular problem, especially for the non-technical teachers.

Exam 2.0 makes online examination and gets students’ results automatically. It is what most teachers expect for: the efficient solution to host exams anywhere and anytime. Transferring traditional exams to online exams will help teachers or trainers a lot, from making interactive quizzes and tests with multimedia enhancement to tracking test results with insightful reports.

With Exam 2.0, teachers could:
- No need to wait a long time at the end of the queue to print the examination paper;
- No need to take a lot of time to review the examination, the Quiz Management System could review the answers and export the report automatically;
- Easy to reuse the quizzes from the quiz database;
- Easy to add some audio and media files for the examination;
- Easy to track the details of the takers on the quiz.

How to implement Exam 2.0 in teaching? Nowadays there are many Exam 2.0 tools to make the online examination. The following are some must have features of Exam 2.0 tools.

The features of Exam 2.0 Tools must have:
1. Support many question types: Many online exam creation tools provide true/false, multiple choice, fill in blank, click map (perfect for geography examination), and so on.

2. Randomization of the questions and answers: So students could get different sequence number of the questions and answers.

3. Import the audio file or record narration for the examination: Perfect for the language training and scenario-based learning.

4. Import media file to the exam: Teachers can easy to add videos to the examination. It is an easy way to catch students’ eyes in minutes.

5. Deploy the examination virtually anywhere: Now many teachers have their own blogs on Ning or Google blogger, they could easy to upload the exam to their blogs. Even more, many of the exam creation tools support SCORM. So teachers can upload the exam to Moodle, Blackboard for students to take.

6. Provide the result tracking system to collect the results automatically: With this function teacher do not need to review the examination papers one by one. The examination results report would be created automatically after the students finish the examination.

An Exam 2.0 tool – QuizCreator - which is widely used in schools and institutions, is a great exam tool providing Free Quiz Management System to track quiz results online. It includes all of the features which Exam 2.0 Tools must have above. Learn more about it from: http://www.online-quiz-creator.com/index.html#109

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Top E-Learning Tools of 2009 You Shouldn't Teach Without

Nowadays, many predictions come forth from every industry. 9 E-Commerce Predictions for 2009, 10 tech predictions for 2009, eLearning predictions for 2009 and so on. Though we know none of us can see into the future, we cannot deny that these predictions play significant roles in guidance for our future work. Below I list some eLearning tools I gather up for 2009, hope these could give you some help in your future teaching and learning. I will classify these tools into 6 different types. Most of them are Free.

Presentation Tools

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Zoho Show is an FREE online presentation program allows users to create presentations from scratch or (as is often the case) import from their library of Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt, .pps) or OpenOffice (.odp, .sxi) presentations.

280 Slides is a notable Free online replacement for desktop presentation apps.With it, you can create a presentation, theme it, add graphics and video, and then present it, share it via Slideshare, or download it as a PowerPoint or PDF file.

PowerPoint is a versatile presentation tool. It is ideal for creating professional presentations that integrate text, charts, diagrams and clip art images.

Wondershare PPT2Flash lets non-technical users create high-impact Flash presentations and eLearning courses from PowerPoint with rich media, quizzes and simulations. PPT2Flash content runs on any Web server, any LMS. For organizations with Learning Management Systems, PPT2Flash creates SCORM and AICC-compliant content so learner results can be tracked.

Simulation Tools
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ScreenToaster is a Free online screen recorder paired with a video platform dedicated to screencasts. Just the perfect tool to search and find tutorials, howtos, reviews, tips and tricks, showcases, walkthrough and e-learning formations.

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs).

DemoCreator is a professional screen recording tool to create better-than-live software video tutorials, presentations and training courses.

Adobe Captive is an electronic learning tool for Microsoft Windows which can be used to author software demonstrations, software simulations, branched scenarios, and randomized quizzes in .swf format.

Assessment Tool

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Hot Potatoes provides a suite of tools that enable you to create interactive web-based activities for self-assessment purposes. It is free of charge for publicly funded, non-profit, educational users.

Qedoc Quiz Maker is a FREE teaching tool for making interactive lessons & quizzes and test preparation.

Online QuizCreator is a powerful assessment tool that you can create Flash online exam, quiz, test and survey. It combines interactivity and multimedia to engage learners through the learning process and offers flexible results tracking and score reporting.

Articulate QuizMaker is a commercial tool that generates web-based quizzes and surveys.

Virtual Classroom

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WiZiQ offers free online e-teaching and e-learning using web conferencing with document and whiteboard sharing, teacher resumes and presentation sharing.

Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro is the complete Web communications solution that enables live online meetings, virtual classes, and group collaboration.

Course Management System

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Moodle is a simple and quick way to get a blog up and running. You can use it for your own professional diary, to run a blog for your course or for your students to keep their own learning journals.

Blogging Tools
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Blogger is a simple and quick way to get a blog up and running. You can use it for your own professional diary, to run a blog for your course or for your students to keep their own learning journals.

Edublogs is “the largest education community on the Internet” where you can sign up for a free WordPress-powered blog.

3 Tips Help Your Corporation Training Far Away From Devils in 2009

We have all heard the claims that implementing eLearning and online training in corporation will significantly reduce the training costs and improve performance. But the fact is that eLearning projects rarely produce a significant Return On Investment (ROI).


Corporate University Xchange's Pillars of e-Learning Success indicated that nearly 75 percent of corporate learning professionals reducing education and training costs was their main driver for launching an e-learning initiative. But the corporate learning practitioners indicated they saved less than 20 percent in training-related expenses by delivering programs via eLearning.


How to advance the ROI of online Corporation training?


Tip 1: Think Better of Choosing Commercial LMSs

Many LMSs (Learning Management Systems) cost companies in excess of $750K per year for license, maintenance and student access fees. Some corporations are paying more for their LMS technology than they are for the eLearning content they deliver. LMSs are essentially high-tech warehouses for training management and eLearning content. Many research indicated that the full cost of LMS technology can be significantly higher than the returns it can provide. Most of these commercial LMSs are very expensive and the investment in LMSs always goes up to 80% of the training cost. Maybe you could choose Open Source LMSs such as Moodle or local LMSs which have strengths that suit certain organizations.


Tip 2: Take Pre-Assessments and Post-Assessments in the Training

Online Assessment (e-Assessment) can significantly reduce the training costs and enhance the training effectiveness. Instructors need to know the overall schedule of the training to grade whole learning process. With different levels, make exact schedule of assessments to examine all learners' performances. The good point is, instructors can benefit from those results of assessments as feedback, and add improvements in the learning courses of next level. For online training, the scheduled assessments could be easier to be integrated into original learning timeline. Assessments and courses can be based on feedbacks from previous assessments to engage learners with interactions. At the end, assessment in traditional way also makes sense with maximum efforts.


Tip 3: Using Open Source or Rapid E-Learning Software to Reduce the Costs on Course Contractor

Open source software is free to download and use owing to the absence of license costs and, according to a report this June in The Financial Times, even the European Union's competition commissioner has urged the European Commission to use software from open sources. And there are many rapid E-Learning tools for corporation employees to create engage courses from PowerPoint without any programming skills.


Here are many known Open Source, Free and Commercial rapid E-Learning authoring tools for reference.


eXe OPEN SOURCE SCORM Development Package:The eXe project is developing a freely available Open Source authoring application to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup.


CourseLab: CourseLab is a powerful, yet easy-to-use, e-learning authoring tool that offers programming-free WYSIWYG environment for creating high-quality interactive e-learning content which can be published on the Internet, Learning Management Systems (LMS), CD-ROMS and other devices.


Articulate Studio: Articulate Studio gives you Presenter, QuizMaker, Engage and Video Encoder in one integrated package. It’s very professional and known in E-Learning area.


Wondershare Rapid E-Learning Suite: It integrates PPT2Flash Professional, QuizCreator, DemoCreator and WebVideo Author in one package. You'll have everything you need to quickly create e-learning courses from PowerPoint and develop stunning interactive content, quizzes, assessments, surveys and simulations. All of these tools are easy to use without any programming skills.