Chapter 27The Impact of Mobile Learning on Assessment and Evaluation

Gary Woodill and Chad Udell

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There are many, many ways to assess and evaluate learning. But, for most people, assessment and evaluation are all about testing—answering questions in multiple-choice format or essay style that are then marked, usually by the same person who created the questions. What is often being assessed in typical paper-and-pencil tests is the memorization and recall of specific content that has been “taught” as part of a standard curriculum.

Because many instructional designers see mobile learning as a spinoff of e-learning, which, in turn, is based on ...

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