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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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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. Instead of reserving them for high-stakes assessments like final exams, some professors now use these tools for routine work like weekly quizzes. Online proctoring is not new.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

in August has released an assessment on the university’s response and what it could have done better. ” Inside Higher Ed on Robot-Proof : “Northeastern president discusses his new book on how higher education can train students for careers where technology cannot make them redundant.” Via Politico : “How U.S.