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

The Hechinger Report

Now, simple AI-driven tools like these chatbots, plagiarism-detecting software and apps to check spelling and grammar are being joined by new, more powerful – and controversial – applications that answer academic questions, grade assignments, recommend classes and even teach. David Weiss, co-founder, Assessment Systems.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

Ed-tech is not a tool that exists only in the service of improving teaching and learning, although that's very much how it gets talked about. 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.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

I'm not an advocate for ed-tech; I'm not here to sell you on a new flashcard app or show you how to use the learning management system more effectively. The promise of ed-tech — now as always: make teaching and learning cheaper, faster, more scalable, more efficient. Not everyone experiences Brandeis the same way.

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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. The more recent rise of automated proctoring tools replace those humans with software robots, thereby reducing the cost. This might be a good opportunity to rethink assessment,” he says.

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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. EdSurge: In terms of accessibility during this time, what have you learned? And most of them have been willing to compromise and think about other ways to do assessment.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” DeVos visited my hometown of Casper, Wyoming to give this speech where she spoke at the Woods Learning Center. in August has released an assessment on the university’s response and what it could have done better. The accreditor: the Higher Learning Commission. Her Wyoming speech offers clues.”