Precursor Ventures predicts higher education will abandon tech-based testing and return to handwritten blue-book exams and oral Socratic questioning. The shift reflects growing doubt that digital assessments actually measure what students learn.
I think it's ironic. I think we're going to go back to less technology and this is happening in colleges already. Hey, your final is going to be a handwritten. Despite the decline in student handwriting, it's going to be handwritten essays and blue books with no computer. You're going to come in and you're going to have to write without an aid. It's going to be potentially old school Socratic oral examinations. I think people are going to find a way to get back to measuring whether or not you learned. And it's probably going to be different than what it's been in the past, which has been a steady march toward more technology.
