ProctorU doesn’t preclude individual professors from assigning open-book exams. Each individual professor sets the specifications for each. This, of course, means that the proctor has 6 different students, all taking different exams, all with slightly different specs, making things…interesting. I still think it’s a silly thing, but there is that flexibility.
I agree completely that test should be more robust and concept-understanding oriented. Need a standardized knowledge-memorization test, such as for medical personnell? Proctor that shit live. Instead instructors from online universities seem to tip toward “I’ll give them SO MANY questions, that they won’t have time to look them all up!!” but that’s just the machine gun in the arms race, and only makes cheating that much more necessary to get up on that cuuuurve.
