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Pushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their Use

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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

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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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Hack Education Weekly News

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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.” ” asks Bryan Alexander.