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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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Online Cheating Isn’t Going Away. Use It as a Teachable Moment for Students and Educators

Edsurge

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

The Hechinger Report

Among those are predicting how well students might do if admitted and assessing their financial need. David Weiss, co-founder, Assessment Systems. Turnitin, best known for checking for plagiarism, also sells AI language comprehension products to assess subjective written work.

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

Edsurge

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.

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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. Other providers of similar services include ProctorU, Proctorio, PearsonVUE and Krypterion. billion in the U.S.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

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

Hack Education

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?