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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

The company was founded in 1998 by UC Berkeley doctoral students who were concerned about cheating in the science classes they taught. 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? The company works both ends of the plagiarism market.

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We need to rethink university IT Services

Mark Smithers

There is little room for experimenting with tools beyond the VLE. At my university it has got to the stage that I only use my own personal laptop connected to wifi network. Innovations and going beyond the VLE. The issue of control has got completely out of hand. This is core to my ability to innovate.

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