Edsurge
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
In 2020, the digital proctoring company Proctorio brought a lawsuit against Ian Linkletter, who was then a learning technology specialist at the University of British Columbia. The videos, which had been posted by the company as “unlisted” on Youtube, described how Proctorio’s software works. Don't be a Proctorio partner.
Edsurge
JULY 27, 2020
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. For example, Bertram Gallant asked: How much value is there in a multiple-choice test that emphasizes memorization?
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Edsurge
APRIL 30, 2019
Historically that involves bringing some form physical identification, but increasingly companies and institutions are turning to face recognition, fingerprinting and voice biometrics. The Boston-based company passed its own test of sorts today: securing a $90 million investment from private equity firm Great Hill Partners.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2021
Humans always make the final calls, these colleges and the AI companies say, but AI can help them narrow the field. A company presentation shows students being scored on a five-point scale in areas such as openness, motivation, agreeableness and “neuroticism.”. Jarrod Morgan, founder and chief strategy officer, ProctorU.
Edsurge
APRIL 19, 2017
In response, education technology companies have been quick to create products that attempt to replicate in-person teaching. Some examples include learning management systems, lecture capture tools, and early online meeting systems. The problem with attempting to replicate in-person teaching online, though, is that it doesn’t work.
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
" I like to cite, as an example, a New Yorker article from a few years ago that interviewed Anthony Levandoski, the Uber engineer sued by Google for stealing its self-driving car technology. There are other examples of this historical amnesia in ed-tech specifically, no doubt. ProctorU was founded at Andrew Jackson University.
Hack Education
APRIL 30, 2020
Teachers, of course, know how to shift this physical setting — move the chairs around, for example. The company was founded in 1998 by UC Berkeley doctoral students who were concerned about cheating in the science classes they taught. The company works both ends of the plagiarism market.
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