Edsurge
APRIL 30, 2020
But now that so many students are taking courses remotely, in improvised environments that may not be especially conducive to learning, it may take some extra effort to redesign instruction, assignments and assessments to address everyone’s needs. For a full transcript, please email rebecca@edsurge.com. Physical accessibility.
Edsurge
APRIL 19, 2017
Rather than spending most of my time time helping people become better online teachers, I have been figuring out how to meet two competing objectives: increase online course offerings and avoid adopting an online proctoring system. In the last five years, research has shown that students want choices in how they take their classes.
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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. 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.
Edsurge
APRIL 30, 2019
Such are the tools developed and offered by Examity , a provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers. staff—alongside its business as more and more students take online courses. Kaplan also uses Examity for its nursing test-prep services.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2021
Among those are predicting how well students might do if admitted and assessing their financial need. Georgia State was also among the first to develop inexpensive, always-on AI teaching assistants, ready to answer student questions about course material. David Weiss, co-founder, Assessment Systems.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
Such tools have been available for a few years, but most college students never encountered them until the pandemic forced them into online courses. Companies including ProctorU have long offered human test-watchers who sit in call centers and look in on test-takers through their webcams. Online proctoring is not new.
Hack Education
APRIL 30, 2020
Teachers, of course, know how to shift this physical setting — move the chairs around, for example. 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. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course.
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