Brains Are Not Books

Collaboration on exams via technology? How could they allow such a thing?!

Really, though, I've always wondered if it actually hurts to allow it. It would need to be regulated in order to avoid simple copying, but to me it just makes sense to allow communication during tests, or at least access to reference materials. Most people who don't already know the material will probably fail anyways. It just takes too long to look up all the answers, and an exam really shouldn't ask questions you can look up the answers to anyways.