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

Edsurge

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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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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As Online Learning Grows, So Will Proctors. Case in Point: Examity’s $90M Deal

Edsurge

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. It can also use biometric keystroke technology to track patterns in how people type, which the company claims can be unique to each individual.

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

The Hechinger Report

As the presence of this technology on campus grows, so do concerns about it. 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.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

I was a guest speaker in the MA in Elearning class at Cork Institute of Technology this morning. I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US. And that's surveillance.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

I am sorry that we're all kicking off fall term online again — well, online is better than dead, of course. Me, I write about education technology for a living. And I do so because I want us — all of us — to flourish; and too often both education and technology are deeply complicit in exploitation and destruction instead.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

Edsurge

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.

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