"So, technology can offer some real advantages when rethinking assessment. But it isn’t just about moving what we do now online or simply enabling digital assessment, it’s an opportunity to rethink assessment approaches and therefore enhancing our assessment and feedback practices. Are we using the right methods to assess the required knowledge, skills and behaviours? Are our assessments opportunities for learning to happen? Are they authentic and best preparing our learners for the ways that they’ll be assessed in the future workplace?
Some of the ways that technology can enhance assessment and feedback include enabling more flexible, authentic, and ‘assessment for learning’ approaches to assessment design. For example it can offer a broader choice of media formats for learners to demonstrate their skills and abilities; offer formative assessment via engagement with communities of practice and peer learning; offer authentic environments through simulations and augmented and virtual reality; enable learners in the workplace to demonstrate, evidence and get sign of for skills effectively and efficiently; and provide online versions of ‘open book’ exams where learners have access to appropriate content that emulates the type of analysis and decision-making that happens in the workplace."