Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

That’s why, instead of punishment, educators might consider incidents of cheating as a teachable moment. Part of the issue when designing assignments and exams to deter cheating is recognizing what cheating in 2020 looks like. Turnitin has seen use of its tools grow during COVID-19 and remote instruction.

ProctorU 218

ProctorU Education Assessment Survey 218

Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Here’s why. Turnitin to Be Acquired by Advance Publications for $1.75B by Sydney Johnson A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry. billion market value. Here’s what the next chief will be stepping into.

EdTech 79

EdTech Knewton Pearson Coursera 79

Hack Education

JUNE 14, 2016

billion by 2020. Testing and assessment remain the primary reason why schools buy computers; these are also the primary purposes for which teachers say they use new technologies in their classrooms. Why do we test? Why do we measure? Why has this become big business? TurnItIn came from Berkeley.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I was an early critic of the proctoring industry, and it’s why I created Proctorio.” He sees the growing adoption of automated proctoring tools as a continuation of a trend started by plagiarism-detection services like Turnitin, which he says were built on the assumption that students want to cheat and must be policed.

ProctorU 217

ProctorU Company Robotics Tools 217

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Why are video-taped lectures so “revolutionary” if lectures themselves are supposedly not? (As According to one student, he had asked why he wasn’t required to take any classes, and he’d been told by the recruiter that he could still earn credits through working. TurnItIn (and the Cheating Detection Racket).

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via the press release : “ Amazon Announces More Than 10,000 Employee Participants in Career Choice and Expects to Reach 20,000 Participants by 2020.” ” “ Virtual Reality Can Teach Altruism, Empathy – and Why You Should Use Less Toilet Paper,” according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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