Stephen Downes shares his thoughts on assessment. I very much agree

with much of what he says and think that this is an area where we will

see a lot of movement in the next few years.

http://halfanhour.blogspot.com</wbr>/2007/06/open-source-assessment</wbr>.html

Some time ago, I proposed to the United Nations University to become a

global assessment and accreditation provider. While it would have had

to deal with all the same structural problems of assessment, such a service would

have increased the value of existing open education resources to users

tremendously. The UNU was not convinced that it should play this role

at the time.