Edsurge
MAY 27, 2021
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. The provost sent a letter last month first noting the change, though some engineering courses that were already using ProctorU kept doing so through the end of the semester.
Edsurge
JULY 27, 2020
Maintaining academic integrity is important, but eradicating cheating is near impossible with how quickly technology moves, said Tricia Bertram Gallant, academic integrity director at the University of California, San Diego, and board emeritus at the International Center for Academic Integrity.
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2021
As the presence of this technology on campus grows, so do concerns about it. ElevateU, for example, uses AI to analyze student data and deliver individualized learning content to students based on how they answered questions. Those ways, Wang said, underscore that the data AI often uses is a record of what people have done in the past.
Edsurge
APRIL 30, 2019
Examity’s identity verification technologies include facial recognition analysis that checks whether a test-taker’s face resembles that of the picture on their ID card. It can also use biometric keystroke technology to track patterns in how people type, which the company claims can be unique to each individual. billion in the U.S.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
At the University of Wisconsin at Madison, officials renewed their contract with an automated proctor provider , even after more than 2,000 people on campus signed a petition calling to ban the technology on campus.
Hack Education
APRIL 30, 2020
I was a guest speaker in the MA in Elearning class at Cork Institute of Technology this morning. 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. And that's surveillance.
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Me, I write about education technology for a living. And I do so because I want us — all of us — to flourish; and too often both education and technology are deeply complicit in exploitation and destruction instead. Technology offers itself as the solution. Not everywhere looks like Brandeis. I'm an ed-tech critic.
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