Another milestone was reached in the “Examination Software” work package in April: The testing of the tablet-based examination tool tOSCE in the practical master craftsman’s examination for electrical engineers at the Heilbronn-Franken Chamber of Crafts was successfully completed and evaluated.

This year we deliberately decided against Christmas greetings by mail and instead opted for a tree donation.

The introduction of digitally supported examinations in the crafts sector has already been offering many advantages in individual skilled crafts organizations for several years. The change from paper-based to digitally supported examinations is taking place gradually. In addition, the Corona pandemic has given a boost to digitization in everyday teaching and working life, and thus also in the examination system. Since November 2020, the ProNet Handwerk team has been working on how the examination process in the crafts sector can be streamlined and simplified nationwide with the help of digitally supported examinations. The goal is to establish examination software that is precisely tailored to the requirements of the crafts sector.

When we started using tablet-based OSCE exams in 2012, we did not expect how much this UCAN tool would change the UCAN world.

Dear UCAN partners,
there is no substitute for personal contact with our users and their direct feedback. Therefore, we would like to invite you to participate in our monthly jour fixe “Meet the developers”.

The Medical Faculty of the University Hospital Bonn has a vacancy for the position “Coordinator (m/f/d) Digital Examinations” in full-time (38.5 hrs./week) as soon as possible.

The UCAN network is now the largest association of medical faculties at both national and international level. The exchange of exam questions and knowledge are essential pillars of our close cooperation. We are therefore very pleased that with the accession of the Goethe University Frankfurt and the University Hospital Jena, 65% of the German medical faculties are now members of the UCAN network. This speaks to the fact that more and more faculties are using and appreciating the UCAN tools for standardizing the assessment processes within their institution. We look forward to the new collaborations and welcome our new partners to UCAN.

We would like to draw your attention to a very interesting blog post by our Canadian partners, the Touchstone Institute. In cooperation with UCAN, the exam of the “Internationally Educated Nurses Competency Assessment Program (IENCAP)” was digitized. The written part of the exam was administered using the ProgressTest wrapper, for which UCAN implemented an interface to an external proctoring provider to ensure a secure exam. The OSCE exam took place via Zoom with a custom dashboard. The examiners performed the assessment from their locations using the tOSCE app, thus the complete test was carried out digitally without media discontinuity.

A very eventful year is coming to an end. Corona has turned many things upside down and has had a lasting impact on all areas of our private lives. Politics, business, the legal and health care systems, and education have also felt the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic. For you, it meant implementing the challenges and requirements in teaching and testing at your university as quickly as possible in order to be able to continue to provide a good education to your students.

Now it is finally time to sit back and rejoice in what we have achieved. We wish you a peaceful, reflective Christmas and a good start in a hopefully less exciting 2021!

Within the framework of a joint pilot project between the Fliedner Fachhochschule Düsseldorf (FFH), the Ostbayrische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden (OTH-AW) and the UCAN Assessment Network, the first examination in the “Physician Assistance” course of studies was successfully completed.

The year is slowly coming to an end and together we can look back on many positive events. On behalf of the entire UCAN Team, we would like to thank you for the great confidence you have placed in us and for the good cooperation within the assessment network.
Christmas is now a good opportunity to rest and recharge our batteries for new tasks and actions in the new year. With this in mind, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a successful start in 2020.