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

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ProctorU was founded at Andrew Jackson University. This spyware extracts an incredible amount of information from students, including their biometric data, audio, and video, and then runs it through proprietary algorithms designed to identify suspicious behavior that might signal cheating. Proctorio was founded at Arizona State.).

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School Work and Surveillance

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Well-known names in the industry include ProctorU, Proctorio, Examity, Verificient. And all this is in addition to the incredible amounts of data gathered and analyzed by the day-to-day administrative software of schools — from the learning management system (the VLE), the student information system, the school network itself, and so on.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s baaaaack: “Return of the MOOC ,” The City Journal tells us. There’s some (sorta) MOOC-related news in the venture funding section below. Because MOOCs on an airplane proved to be such an effective mode of instruction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security. There’s more for-profit news in the HR and accreditation sections below.