Could online exams transform how we think about learning?

I'm hoping for better assessment... as we have gone for open-book 'takeaway' examinations that students download and answer in a 24-hour period, we should be able to mark them on how well they can USE and APPLY what they have learned, rather than how much they can REMEMBER of it.

Universities administrators and lecturers are unsure about what is learning and how it can be effectively facilitated whether online or offline, in a covid or noncovid setting. Learning happens when students understand the concept/s associated with the topic. For example instead of repeating in front of my class what the literature says degrees of freedom is, a teacher who explain the concept of degrees of freedom with examples. Role play or dialogue or experience or project based approaches can be used. Teachers are the ones who engage students in a manner that they grow to like the course. Those who do not during the semester engage students are not teaching. The onus is on the teacher to awaken student's interest at any age. Examinations of any form are not motivators, examinations are end products. Some of the factors that can motivate students of any age to want to learn online or offline are family background, teaching style, motivational level, context, peers, students goals. Teachers must use a variety of teaching methods and resources that appeal to the various learning styles of students in order to kindle and maintain their interest across the semester. These are the issues to pay more attention to and not examinations and the shift to online delivery. As a professionally trained teacher and former professor of teacher education, it is clear that lecturers would definitely need training workshops in teaching. The online forum only means that lecturers would also need to be trained in using learning management platforms however definition and indicators of Learning will remain the same offline and online, for 2020 and years into the future. This has nothing to do with lecturers or students perceptions in any part of the world.