University launches consultation over concerns students reliant on computers are losing the ability to write by handThe increasing illegibility of students’ handwriting has prompted Cambridge University to consider ending 800 years of tradition by allowing laptops to replace pen and paper for exams. Academics say that students are losing the ability to write by hand en masse because of their reliance on laptops in lectures and elsewhere. Cambridge University Press headed for showdown with China over censorship Read more“As a faculty we have been concerned for years about the declining handwriting problem. A similar scheme was implemented for first- and second-year divinity students at Edinburgh University in 2011. At the time, Dai Hounsell, a professor of higher education at the university, told the Scotsman that students faced a dual strain in providing handwritten exam answers.

Source: The Guardian September 09, 2017 10:42 UTC