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Itamar - At least we agree that students should be able to do more than just recognise or repeat utterances they have encountered. So rote learning of the expression of facts (as a parrot might achieve, or you might achieve in a language you don't understand) is not enough. The scary thing with many students is that their ability to rote learn is phenomenal, and they can be tempted to rely on just that. Medical students who cram for exams that way can even pass with little real understanding of what they have learned. This is short-lived knowledge that is no foundation for a career as a doctor and it is dangerous when students pass exams that way. What is missing is the network of relationships between all these things: A is an instance of B;  B results in C, etc. If you lay down such a network, then you can use the relationships, even after many of them have been forgotten or don't immediately come to mind, to arrive at or check the reliability of pieces of knowledge that you need to use. If you don't want to call this 'understanding', OK - but you need it, and it seems to me the essence of understanding. We can develop it and  assess it by asking questions that have different perspectives on the issues, to which answers cannot all have been simply rote learned. All this has little to do with Moodle, so I guess shouldn't really be here.