  The use of new technologies in higher education has surprisingly emphasized
students' tendency to adopt a passive behavior in class. Participation and
interaction of students are essential to improve academic results. This paper
describes an educational experiment aimed at the promotion of students'
autonomous learning by requiring them to generate test type questions related
to the contents of the course. The main idea is to make the student feel part
of the evaluation process by including students' questions in the evaluation
exams. A set of applications running on our university online learning
environment has been developed in order to provide both students and teachers
with the necessary tools for a good interaction between them. Questions
uploaded by students are visible to every enrolled student as well as to each
involved teacher. In this way, we enhance critical analysis skills, by solving
and finding possible mistakes in the questions sent by their fellows. The
experiment was applied over 769 students from 12 different courses. Results
show that the students who have actively participated in the experiment have
obtained better academic performance.
