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
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
The most controversial new tech tool for colleges since the start of the pandemic is automated proctoring, which aims to detect cheating on online exams by using algorithms that watch students via their webcam and look for suspicious patterns of behavior—often sending clips of questionable moments to professors for later review.
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Edsurge
APRIL 19, 2017
However, it is in direct conflict with my desire to avoid online proctoring tools, which mimic poor in-person assessment practices. In response, education technology companies have been quick to create products that attempt to replicate in-person teaching. When would we encourage students to give a stranger access their webcam?
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2021
Now, simple AI-driven tools like these chatbots, plagiarism-detecting software and apps to check spelling and grammar are being joined by new, more powerful – and controversial – applications that answer academic questions, grade assignments, recommend classes and even teach. The University of Texas at Austin.
Edsurge
JULY 27, 2020
Turnitin has seen use of its tools grow during COVID-19 and remote instruction. 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.
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.
Hack Education
APRIL 30, 2020
Ed-tech is not a tool that exists only in the service of improving teaching and learning, although that's very much how it gets talked about. Tools have politics. The company was founded in 1998 by UC Berkeley doctoral students who were concerned about cheating in the science classes they taught. They have histories.
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