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He just wanted students to undergo testing in a real-world scenario.
Highly forward-thinking, Hong Kong-based former Nanyang Technological University professor Cherian George has just administered the best exam for university students ever.
He conducted an open book exam with little rules that allowed his students to not only use the Internet to source for answers, but even ask course mates for help.
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Posted by Cherian George on Tuesday, December 1, 2015
The associate professor in the journalism department of Hong Kong Baptist University said this exam is for a theory course in journalism and society.
The reason for not having too many rules is to allow real-world networked conditions to seep in. The point of the exam, as noted in the exam rules, is to judge the students on the originality of their ideas.
However, during the exam, Dr George noted the students were not interacting as much as he thought they would and the class hardly descended into chaos given the free-form conditions.
There was even free cookies and chocolate for the students, but the students were still embedded in conventional exam mode and they still looked like they were suffering:
How stressful, having to eat and write at the same time.
Photos from Cherian George Facebook page.
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December 02, 02:37 PM 
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