PePP: Partnership for innovative e-examinations Project network of Baden-Württemberg universities
- startdate:
October 2021
- enddate:
July 2024
Open book upload exams, online exams with video supervision, oral online exams - a lot has changed for students and teaching staff in recent semesters. Especially in the division of digital examination formats. Universities have developed many creative solutions in a very short space of time in order to be able to maintain performance reviews with as little loss of quality as possible while avoiding large gatherings.
The PePP project (Partnership for Innovative E-Examinations - Project Network of Baden-Württemberg Universities) aims to share these experiences and, building on them, develop new formats that enable digital examinations even in a post-Corona era, as well as to bundle possible opportunities and challenges of computer-based examination formats and jointly test technical, didactic and organizational innovations. The project contributes to sustainably strengthening the digitalization of teaching, learning and testing at universities in Baden-Württemberg.
In addition to the nine state universities, the Higher Education Network for Digitalization in Baden-Württemberg (HND-BW) and the University Didactics Center (HDZ) are also part of the partnership. The project is funded by the Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education within the "University Teaching through Digitalization" programme for the funding period from October 2021 to July 2024.
At the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), several institutions are involved in the project: In addition to the Center for Technology-Enhanced Learning (ZML), the Scientific Centre for Computing (SCC) and the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) are also involved.
The focus is particularly on expanding options for conducting online examinations - both on campus and remotely (remote examinations). To this end, new technical developments are being tested and evaluated. The scope of the question formats is also to be expanded as part of the project. The ViPLab application, which is already established at the University of Stuttgart, is expected to be launched at KIT in the summer term, summer semester 2022. This solution will enable teaching staff to integrate programming tasks into the examination. From 2024, it is also planned to use an e-assessment platform for graphical modeling tasks, which is currently being developed in the KEA-Mod project.
In addition to the overall coordination of the KIT, the ZML will be responsible for testing the resulting solutions with various user groups, documenting and evaluating the tests and creating training materials for future use. We are interested in a close exchange with the users over the entire duration of the project and would also like to give them the opportunity to contribute ideas. To this end, the ZML is launching a regular exchange from January 18, to which all interested parties are invited. Further courses of this kind will follow.
The presentation "Overview of the implementation of written online exams" provides a comprehensive insight into the implementation of written online exams at the universities Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, University of Mannheim and University of Hohenheim. As part of the PePP project, these online examination scenarios were partly newly developed and partly optimized. Various examination scenarios and formats are presented, including written online examinations, written exams(ination) with and without third-party applications, examinations in pool rooms and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) examinations. A particular focus is placed on the underlying administrative processes and the distribution of responsibilities within the respective institutions.