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Online Cheating Isn’t Going Away. Use It as a Teachable Moment for Students and Educators

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Valerie Schreiner, chief product officer at plagiarism detection service provider Turnitin, said the cost continues to decrease to hire someone to write your paper or gain remote access to a computer to take an exam. “I Memorization, one could argue, is not necessary in a lot of cases anymore when Google knows everything,” she said.

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Another problem with shifting education online: cheating

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Scott McFarland, CEO, ProctorU. Before Covid-19 forced millions of students online, one of the companies that provides that service, ProctorU, caught people cheating on fewer than 1 percent of the 340,000 exams it administered from January through March. They could not say what happened to the students who allegedly hired him.

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” Via Techcrunch : “ Google expands Howard West to a full-year program to train more black engineers.” Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ Google for Education Launches Beta for ‘Create Your Own’ Virtual Reality Experience.” New hires at the Department of Education. ” Contests and Awards.