Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

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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Software ProctorU Company Data 141

Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

We then dove into the learning management system ( LMS in the US; VLE in Europe ). Providers are growing more features, each company or project following or leapfrogging the others. Another example: phones are much more important than tablets for less affluent students, but CIOs see them as equally significant. What next for the LMS?

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Trends LMS VLE Technology 40

Mark Smithers

APRIL 25, 2016

There is little room for experimenting with tools beyond the VLE. Even a simple thing like enforcing a university branded desktop wall paper and screensaver will annoy most academic staff and yet some brand manager will have insisted on it because that’s how it worked at the insurance company they were at last.

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VLE Policies Laptops System 32

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

” Despite thinking of themselves as liberal-learning, today’s tech companies re-inscribe much of this. What sorts of companies and what sorts of products do venture capitalists like, for example? And “platforming” was a story that technology companies were telling about their own goals too.

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Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64