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School Work and Surveillance

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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. Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work?

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

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Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work? Well-known names in the industry include ProctorU, Proctorio, and Examity. Is it the algorithms — the pattern-matching capabilities that purport to identify plagiarism?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. in August has released an assessment on the university’s response and what it could have done better. ” asks Bryan Alexander.