Learning and Assessment in the Knowledge Society
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This paper raises questions about assessment and the knowledge or learning society. It focuses on the emergent field of alternative assessment and its links with practices usually described, by default, as traditional assessment. 1 This is a revised version of a paper discussed at the EDEN 2004 Annual Conference, New challenges and Partnerships in an enlarged European Union: Open, Distance and e-Learning in Support of Modernisation, Capacity Building and Regional Development, 16 – 19 June, University of Technology and Economics,
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