Edsurge
MAY 27, 2021
The problem, critics say, is that the systems often lead to false-positives, add stress to the test-taking process and invade privacy. This week one large provider of proctoring services, ProctorU, took the unusual step of announcing that it would no longer sell an AI-only proctoring product. “We
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
Just in the past few months, a law student sued an automated proctoring company , students have complained about their use in student newspaper editorials and professors have compared them to Big Brother. Some say the systems often lead to false-positives, add stress to the test-taking process and invade privacy.
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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.”. David Weiss, co-founder, Assessment Systems.
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.
Edsurge
APRIL 19, 2017
Rather than spending most of my time time helping people become better online teachers, I have been figuring out how to meet two competing objectives: increase online course offerings and avoid adopting an online proctoring system. Some examples include learning management systems, lecture capture tools, and early online meeting systems.
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
The learning management system, for example, originated at universities. (We ProctorU was founded at Andrew Jackson University. But I want to call out Proctorio in particular in this talk because this company has demonstrated it has no business in schools; its products have no business in classrooms. We can debate which one.
Hack Education
APRIL 30, 2020
I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US. The company works both ends of the plagiarism market. So grain of salt and my apologies and all that.
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