Chances and challenges of online assessment: Hanoi Open University case

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The purpose of this case study is to share the authors’ involvement and observations in applying online testing as a reliable and effective academic achievement assessment tool for students of Hanoi Open University before, during, and after the complicated COVID-19 pandemic. This case clearly shows the application of information technology in the field of training, particularly for the organization of online assessments in various ways that combine objective multiple-choice tests and combined with online oral tests between lecturers and students. With over ten years of experience organizing and operating education services in a combined online and offline environment, Hanoi Open University has proactively applied information technology to solve difficulties and challenges in different periods of the world in general and Vietnam in particular. The widespread application of social distancing in Vietnam during the complicated development of the COVID-19 pandemic has created a huge obstacle to assessing learning outcomes at all educational levels. Therefore, the thorough application of information technology to online assessment has become a promising solution to this problem in many parts of the world. Authors with many years of experience in tech have collaborated with educational administrators to create a way to organize online assessments (both practical and theoretical) without physical contact between students and lecturers so that the maintenance of teaching at Hanoi Open University has been and continues with a new impetus following the common new normal trend of Vietnam and around the world.