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Inspera AS in an educational technology company specialising in online assessment solutions. It produces SaaS cloud-based e-Assessment platform for secondary and higher education, awarding bodies, and governments.[https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/g-cloud/services/726289038153967] The company is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, and has offices in Stockholm, Aarhus, and Timisoara.

History

Inspera AS is a part of the Inspera Group, which also includes company Creaza AS^[1], one of the companies behind WeVideo in the US. The Inspera Group was founded in 2001 in Oslo by EdTech serial entrepreneur Bjørn Rustberggard. The company is in private property, with independent funding, and is partially owned by employees of Inspera AS. The company has 70% international staff as of 2018.

Inspera started developing digital resources for publishers from 2001, and has been producing an enterprise content management system since 2005.^[2]

Inspera has been delivering national digital tests for the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training since 2008. Its strongest presence is as a provider of online assessments in Norwegian higher education

^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6], endorsed by UNINETT ^[7]. Recently, it has expanded its operations worldwide ^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12], including to international educational institutions such as Cambridge International, Oxford University, and the Caribbean Examinations Council.

Software and Services

The flagship product of Inspera AS is Inspera Assessment. Inspera Assessment is a SaaS B2B cloud-based e-Assessment platform for K-12 schools, secondary and higher education, awarding bodies, municipalities, and governments. It supports authoring, delivering, marking and reporting for the entire e-assessment workflow^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18], as well as providing learning analytics based on classical test theory and item response theory.

Research & Development

Inspera AS has secured public funding for several of its R&D projects. In 2018, Inspera AS was awarded funding by the Regionalt Forskningsfonds Hovedstaden (RFFHSTAD) for a project on the use of tech to improve question quality.^[19] The project is a collaboration between the Oslo directorate for education ([https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utdanningsetaten_i_Oslo Utdanningsetaten]), researchers from the University of Oslo, [https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matematikksenteret the Mathematics Centre] at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and researchers from the Medical Sciences Learning Technologies Division at the University of Oxford.

In a second R&D project, funded by the Research Council of Norway, Inspera is involved in developing adaptive tests for young students in Norway in mathematics and reading comprehension. Partners in this project include [https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesesenteret the Reading Centre], the Oslo directorate for education ([https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utdanningsetaten_i_Oslo Utdanningsetaten]), and [https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matematikksenteret the Mathematics Centre] at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

References

1. ^{{cite journal |last1=Takhirov |first1=N. |last2=Duchateau |first2=F. |title=A cloud-based and social authoring tool for video |journal=Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering |date=2011 |page=65–68 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221352887 |publisher=ACM}}
2. ^{{cite journal |last1=Takhirov |first1=N. |last2=Sølvberg |first2=I. T. |title=Adaptive personalized eLearning on top of existing LCMS |journal=Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries |date=2009 |pages=445–446 |publisher=ACM}}
3. ^University of Bergen official website, [https://www.uib.no/en/diguib/96811/digital-exams Digital exams] (21st March 2016)
4. ^trd.by [https://trd.by/aktuelt/2018/11/16/Slik-er-NTNUs-nye-%C2%ABeksamensfabrikk%C2%BB-i-den-gamle-Postterminalen-17891265.ece Slik er NTNUs nye “eksamenfabrikk” i den gamle Postterminalen] (16th November 2018)
5. ^{{cite journal |last1=Raaheim |first1=A. |last2=Mathiassen |first2=K. |last3=Moen |first3=V. |last4=Lona |first4=I. |last5=Gynnild |first5=V. |last6=Bunæs |first6=B. R. |last7=Hasle |first7=E. T. |title=Digital assessment–how does it challenge local practices and national law? A Norwegian case study |journal=European Journal of Higher Education |date=2018 |page=1–13 |doi=10.1080/21568235.2018.1541420 }}
6. ^{{cite journal |last1=Begnum |first1=M. E. N. |last2=Foss-Pedersen |first2=R. J. |title=Digital assessment in higher education |journal=Universal Access in the Information Society |date=2017 |page=1–20 |url=https://brage.bibsys.no/xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/2467543/post_print_new_model_BegnumFossPedersenUAIS.pdf?sequence=4}}
7. ^UNINETT (UNIT) official website, [https://www.uninett.no/en/digtal-assessment-three-vendors-chosen Digital assessment leap: Norwegian research and higher education sector concludes on three ICT systems] (26th September 2016)
8. ^University of Iceland official website, [https://english.hi.is/news/exams_at_the_university_of_iceland_will_change_radically Exams at University of Iceland will change radically] (26th November 2018)
9. ^Lund Universitet’s official website, Rektors Blogg, [https://rektor.blogg.lu.se/digital-examination-ska-rullas-ut-brett/ Digital Examination ska rullas ut brett] (6th September 2017)
10. ^Caribbean Examinations Council official Youtube channel, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVYbcxfcyJ0 E-testing with Truls Bohm] (23rd March 2017)
11. ^University of Bath official website, Centre for Teaching and Learning, [https://blogs.bath.ac.uk/clt/2018/10/19/implementing-online-exams-notes-from-norway/ Implementing online exams: notes from Norway] (19th October 2018)
12. ^Fluck, A., Pálsson, H., Coleman, M., Hillier, M., Schneider, D., Frankl, G., & Uolia, K. (2017, July). eExam symposium: design decisions and implementation experience. In IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education, Dublin.
13. ^University of Oslo official website, [https://www.uio.no/english/studies/examinations/inspera/ Examinations in Inspera]
14. ^[https://books.google.it/books?id=xCBqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&dq=inspera+assessment&source=bl&ots=3itn6vII-M&sig=ACfU3U24C0RzWTXhfYPSNC_m2NTpSKjSBw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjY7-jz_ZXgAhVQ_qQKHb_yBcg4HhDoATAIegQIARAB#v=onepage&q=inspera%20assessment&f=false Technology Enhanced Assessment: 20th International Conference Proceedings] (2018)
15. ^{{cite journal |last1=Petersen |first1=S. A. |last2=Markiewicz |first2=J.K. |last3=Bjørnebekk |first3=S.S. |date=2009|title=Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning |journal=Legislative Studies |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=33–60 |url=https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8b0a/275211c904db2e9ecdda42245762e5861cbc.pdf}}
16. ^{{cite journal |last1=Sindre |first1=G. |last2=Vegendla |first2=A. |title=E-exams and exam process improvement |journal=NIK |date=2015 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299497855}}
17. ^{{cite book |last1=Küppers |first1=Bastian |last2=Schroeder |first2=Ulrik |editor1-last=Ras |editor1-first=Eric |editor2-last=Guerrero Roldán |editor2-first=Ana Elena |title=A Framework for e-Assessment on Students' Devices: Technical Considerations |date=2018 |publisher=Springer}}
18. ^{{cite book |last1=Mathisen |first1=T. C. |last2=Lier |first2=J. O. |title=Experiments towards digital exam with auto-grading in C++ programming courses |date=2016 |publisher=Master's thesis, NTNU}}
19. ^Forskningsradet official website, [https://www.forskningsradet.no/servlet/Satellite?cid=1254035879793&pagename=VedleggPointer&target=_blank] (2018).