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Amid Objections to Automated Proctoring, One Company Abandons the Practice

Edsurge

This week one large provider of proctoring services, ProctorU, took the unusual step of announcing that it would no longer sell an AI-only proctoring product. The provost sent a letter last month first noting the change, though some engineering courses that were already using ProctorU kept doing so through the end of the semester.

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

Edsurge

And by actually creating environments where students can learn from the integrity violations, I think we’ll do more for our society than trying to lock down our schools so that students don't have the opportunity to cheat.” Students don’t see exams as part of learning, he added.

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From admissions to teaching to grading, AI is infiltrating higher education

The Hechinger Report

ElevateU, for example, uses AI to analyze student data and deliver individualized learning content to students based on how they answered questions. Related: Coronavirus accelerates higher education’s trend toward distance learning. Jarrod Morgan, founder and chief strategy officer, ProctorU. The University of St.

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?Online Courses Shouldn’t Use Remote Proctoring Tools. Here’s Why.

Edsurge

Some examples include learning management systems, lecture capture tools, and early online meeting systems. When would we encourage students to give a stranger access their webcam? Second, online proctoring systems, such as ProctorU or Proctorio , replicate a practice that isn’t effective in-person.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

Edsurge

Colleges have long had offices designed to support students who have learning disabilities and to encourage broader accessibility in the classroom and beyond. On the latest installment of our monthly online discussion forum, EdSurge Live , we explored accessibility in this unusual era of emergency remote teaching.

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Another problem with shifting education online: cheating

The Hechinger Report

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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Pushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their Use

Edsurge

Companies including ProctorU have long offered human test-watchers who sit in call centers and look in on test-takers through their webcams. You are assuming that students are trying to cheat—rather than assuming students are trying to learn and help them learn.” Online proctoring is not new.

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