Re-Engineering Higher Education by Models Suitable for COVID-19 and Students with Disabilities

Thanks to computers and the internet, since the rise of COVID-19, different methods of online teaching have replaced the face-to-face teaching; however there has not been a viable method of assessment that is fully capable of replacing in class assessments. It is hard, if not impossible, to maintain the integrity of the exams, when conducted remotely. Even prior to the COVID attack, arranging and conducting exams for students, who depend on Students Accessibility Services (SAS), were becoming cumbersome and a burden for universities and instructors. If there were no exams required, as an assessment tool, both the abovementioned issues, would not be a problem. In this paper a few theoretical common solutions to both the issues mentioned above is theorized, proposing elimination or reduction of the exams, as major assessment tool for undergraduate students. The model in which all the exams are eliminated is referred to as Stress-free, and the one with reduced exams is called Stress-less model. Implementing the models discussed in this paper, demand an overhaul of the entire higher education system.