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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. Theirs is called Jill Watson, and studies found that some students couldn’t tell they were engaging with AI and not a human teaching assistant. David Weiss, co-founder, Assessment Systems.

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

Edsurge

In fact, when the option between taking a course online or in-person is provided, studies show students are more likely to stay in college. However, it is in direct conflict with my desire to avoid online proctoring tools, which mimic poor in-person assessment practices.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

I spoke tonight in Dorothy Kim's class "Race Before Race: Premodern Critical Race Studies." 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.

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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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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. 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

The NEO mobile app for Windows allows users to access the full feature set within the platform including creating and delivering online classes, assessing students, sharing resources, tracking student achievement, and collaborating on projects. Big Universe is now available in the U.S. exclusively through FuelEd.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Edsurge : “As Bootcamps Look for Novel Ways for Students to Pay For Their Studies, Many Try ‘ Deferred Tuition ’ ” Do note how student financial aid startups are still raising venture capital (and how now, I guess, ed-tech publications cover these stories when before they insisted these weren’t ed-tech). .”