e-Testing with interactive images - Opportunities and challenges

Abstract

Modern e-Education systems lack some basic functionalities the e-Testing systems have, such as reuse of question database, random positioning of answer options in multiple choice questions, generation of different tests with the same complexity for students, prevention of cheating by guessing and memorizing etc. Multimedia is essential in the delivery of e-Learning and e-Testing. However, most of the existing systems include multimedia only as delivery of static pictures and animations without any interaction with images. In this paper we refer to opportunities and challenges the interactive image might have for e-Testing. We present features of a new human computer interface and discuss the basic architecture of interactive images to be applied in the delivery of interactive e-Testing. At the end we discuss the benefit of this approach and present proof of a concept by analyzing the application domain. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.