Abstract
Distance learning technologies enrich learning opportunities due to many advantages like ubiquity and flexibility. Although the usefulness of such technologies in teaching and learning is clear, their testing part is remained to be discussed due to the security issue. Administrators and teachers need to use more authentic and secure distant testing software in which the scores are guaranteed and the testees keep away from cheating. Static and online authentication systems like “username” and “password” and face detection have empowered educational parties to have more reliable testing outcomes. Mobile devices as the necessity of the new millennium need to use authentication software in their testing. Mobile devices with their multimedia course materials provide learners with many optimistic learning opportunities through collaboration, cooperation, interaction and testing. The unique chances of ubiquity, individualization, informality, and spontaneity make the mobile learning of particular importance not only for digital natives but also for teachers, administrators, developers, instructors, and policy makers. Yielding an economical learning opportunity along with providing authentic contexts for collaborative learning is beneficial for the economy of the country in general and for the meaningful and deep learning of the learners. This paper will discuss how authentication techniques have applied to electronic devices like mobile phones.
Highlights
Distant education as a non-boundary education can give the education system noticeable achievement
Some good attempts have been made to enhance the security part of testing in computers and laptops and in effect to reduce cheating, as far as we found in the literature, no work has been done to take security part of testing into account
Nowadays, mobile assisted language learning has a huge capacity which has not yet fully discovered. The facilities it provides in teaching and learning are noteworthy
Summary
Distant education as a non-boundary education can give the education system noticeable achievement. Virtual or distant education has recently been appreciated by higher education institutes which have radically made a breakthrough in learning frameworks (Robles & Braathen, 2002) In this type of learning, due to the equal participation of the students, teachers can know their students more appropriately through multimedia like a discussion board, chat rooms, website links, video and audio clip, powerpoint, and set forth. Among these facilities, electronic testing and grading with teachers’ feedback are noteworthy. Mobile learning as a form of distant education has many beneficial points like acknowledging
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