In this case, you need to propose something better in order to be taken seriously. Even companies like Coursera still use exams and quizzes heavily, presumably

In this case, you need to propose something better in order to be taken seriously. Even companies like Coursera still use exams and quizzes heavily, presumably because they couldn't come up with anything better. The goal is to test whether someone has learned something. The most obvious way is to ask them a series of questions to confirm that they have learned it. There are some other obvious alternatives, like having them do a project that would require having the knowledge you wanted them to learn, but those methods don't scale and are just as, if not more, vulnerable to cheating (it is common in Indian universities to hire someone to do your capstone project for you).