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As Online Learning Grows, So Will Proctors. Case in Point: Examity’s $90M Deal

Edsurge

Other providers of similar services include ProctorU, Proctorio, PearsonVUE and Krypterion. According to Tyton Partners, an investment banking and advisory firm focused on the education sector, the market for online proctoring services will reach $4.2 To date, Examity has raised just shy of $120 million in investment capital.

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?Online Courses Shouldn’t Use Remote Proctoring Tools. Here’s Why.

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More than that, it goes against much of what we teach students about online privacy. Second, online proctoring systems, such as ProctorU or Proctorio , replicate a practice that isn’t effective in-person. Trying to control online learning variables, as online proctoring systems attempt to do, is futile.

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

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AllLearn wasn't the only online education failure of the early 2000s, of course. Columbia University invested $30 million into its own online learning initiative, Fathom, that opened in 2000 and closed in 2003. There, you can learn that this initiative was headed by one Michael M. TurnItIn was founded at UC Berkeley.)

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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. And for most online test-takers, no one has been watching.

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