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

Edsurge

Second, online proctoring systems, such as ProctorU or Proctorio , replicate a practice that isn’t effective in-person. We know that all students are online, so open book and open notes should be assumed. Exams are only good for a few things : managing faculty workload and assessing low level skill and content knowledge.

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

Hack Education

Some of these other examples appear in the introduction of my forthcoming book, which I won't spoil since I have to save a chapter like that for the book tour — if we can do book tours. ProctorU was founded at Andrew Jackson University. Narratives about the “factory model of education” and whatnot.

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Another problem with shifting education online: cheating

The Hechinger Report

Scott McFarland, CEO, ProctorU. Before Covid-19 forced millions of students online, one of the companies that provides that service, ProctorU, caught people cheating on fewer than 1 percent of the 340,000 exams it administered from January through March. They could not say what happened to the students who allegedly hired him.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

MCGRAW-HILL EDUCATION AND PROCTORU ( mheducation.com ) & ( www.proctoru.com ) McGraw-Hill Education and ProctorU announced a new partnership that will enable higher education institutions to deliver digital ALEKS Placement, Preparation and Learning (ALEKS PPL) exams with ProctorU’s secure remote proctoring system.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” 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.” ” (Venture) Philanthropy and the Business of Ed Reform.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Campus Technology : “One of the founders and former CEO of online proctoring company ProctorU , Don Kassner, is launching a new venture: MonitorEDU , an online proctoring service powered by technology from ProctorExam. Via The New York Times : “ School Shooting Simulation Trains Teachers for the Worst.”