Edsurge
MAY 27, 2021
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. Officials for the company also said they found that reviewing suspicious clips sent by the AI system was a burden that professors did not have adequate time for.
Edsurge
JULY 27, 2020
Preventing cheating becomes a game of cat-and-mouse, said Ashley Norris, chief academic officer at ProctorU, a company that provides secure live and automated online proctoring services. We need to continue to emphasize to students the importance of the assessments. Students don’t see exams as part of learning, he added.
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2021
Among those are predicting how well students might do if admitted and assessing their financial need. Humans always make the final calls, these colleges and the AI companies say, but AI can help them narrow the field. The result is 20 times more predictive than relying on demographics alone, the company says.
Edsurge
APRIL 30, 2019
Historically that involves bringing some form physical identification, but increasingly companies and institutions are turning to face recognition, fingerprinting and voice biometrics. The Boston-based company passed its own test of sorts today: securing a $90 million investment from private equity firm Great Hill Partners.
Edsurge
APRIL 19, 2017
However, it is in direct conflict with my desire to avoid online proctoring tools, which mimic poor in-person assessment practices. This issue arises because many faculty that choose to teach online refuse to do so if they can’t rely on the same methods of assessment that they use in their in-person courses.
Hack Education
APRIL 30, 2020
That is, we are less likely to use ed-tech to rethink assignments or assessments than we are to use ed-tech more closely scrutinize student behavior. The company was founded in 1998 by UC Berkeley doctoral students who were concerned about cheating in the science classes they taught.
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Technology companies offer their products as the solution, and technology advocates promote the narrative of techno-solutionism. If schools are struggling right now, education technology companies — and technology companies in general — are not. Tech companies are dominating the stock market. Let me fix that sentence.
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