Re: Best CBT software

[Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>]

Greg Sweet is right about getting the objectives nailed down first. My 
wife and I have both been subjected to ridiculous computer-based 
training in the past couple of years. There is some truly awful stuff 
out there that makes learning a real pain. (Getting a good grade, on the 
other hand, seems to be a snap.)

You might say, "... but the tools were good, they just weren't used 
well." That may be the case, but if the tools do not suggest or even 
enforce some kind of testing of the training modules, the results will 
be of unknown quality at best.

Some of the systems permit the student to cheat easily; others make it 
somewhat difficult. Most of them allow the course writer to create exams 
that do not match the training items that were presented, so having a 
way to cheat is very handy. Frequently the exams will get negatives 
wrong, so that a question, "Pick the item that does not match the 
criteria," has a "right" answer that BEST matches, and it's up to the 
student to fool the system into letting him retake the question until he 
discovers the right wrong answer.

Oh, I suppose I'm being a curmudgeon, and all this stuff is the Wave Of 
The Future, and I'm being left behind with my horse and buggy where I 
actually expect there to be right answers, and where I'm not supposed to 
let the horse cut corners so I won't get overturned. Too much of a 
fussbudget.

Let us know if there's actually something that's worthwhile.


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