Open Book Exam Courses

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But why do they do this? From your point of view, it seems that they should offer these online with no proctor. Why shouldn't they? What is the fundamental difference?

I think some assumptions are being made here. Please tell me what you are understanding as "my point of view" in this situation.

From a course versus ECE exam perspective:

~ With the courses you have a teacher who is grading you over the term of the course work. You are interacting with other students in the course , via discussion board postings, etc. You sign up and complete the course through Excelsior.

~The ECE's you sign up for them through Excelsior but take the exam at a Pearson-Vue center.

In regards to why Excelsior requires such security for ECE and UExcel exams, but does not require proctoring of exam's for their online courses.

If I were to guess it maybe because the courses require interaction between a teacher and student over a period of time. Also I would guess most of the time the people who are taking Excelsior courses are matriculated in one of their degree programs, so they have already obtained personal information on the student and verified their identity.

The ECE's can be taken by anyone, and are administered by another company. Perhaps this is one of the reasons for their security measures.
They may need to have this additional information in their files to comply with accreditation standards (RA, ACE or both).