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A Proctoring Company Tried to Sue an Edtech Critic. He’s Fighting Back in Court.

Edsurge

At least one proctoring service, ProctorU, even said it’d stop using AI-only proctoring services last year. Although it may have caused anxiety among some observers, the lawsuit, which experts say is typical of Proctorio's aggressive handling of critics, is still viewed as a rarity in the edtech industry.

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How Remote Proctoring has upgraded the E-Learning Industry?

Think Exam

Remote proctoring has been available from the past few years but it wasn’t acknowledged on a wider basis. With the sudden rise in demand for E-Learning platforms during COVID, remote proctoring software started to gain its much-awaited recognition.

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

Hack Education

It's entertaining, I guess — the dinosaurs and the Neanderthals and the Industrial Revolution, and stuff like that. I talk a lot about the problems of industry when it comes to ed-tech — how venture capital and venture philanthropy have enormous influence on shaping the direction of education policy.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

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. " There is a growing digital proctoring industry that offers schools way to monitor students during online test-taking.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

" There is a growing digital proctoring industry that offers schools way to monitor students during online test-taking. Well-known names in the industry include ProctorU, Proctorio, and Examity. No longer does it just analyze students' essays to make sure the text is "original."

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Another problem with shifting education online: cheating

The Hechinger Report

Scott McFarland, CEO, ProctorU. Before Covid-19 forced millions of students online, one of the companies that provides that service, ProctorU, caught people cheating on fewer than 1 percent of the 340,000 exams it administered from January through March. They could not say what happened to the students who allegedly hired him.

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Pushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their Use

Edsurge

Companies including ProctorU have long offered human test-watchers who sit in call centers and look in on test-takers through their webcams. I was an early critic of the proctoring industry, and it’s why I created Proctorio.” Online proctoring is not new. In that model, colleges are typically charged on a per-test basis. “You

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