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Automated Proctoring Swept In During Pandemic. It’s Likely to Stick Around, Despite Concerns

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Tara Carpenter, lecturer at UMBC Officials for Chegg and Course Hero, for their part, argue that their services are not intended as cheating tools, and they point to acceptable use policies and other efforts that discourage cheating.

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

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Some of this is a result of an influx of Silicon Valley types in recent years — people with no ties to education or education technology who think that their ignorance and lack of expertise is a strength. In technology, all that matters is tomorrow." ProctorU was founded at Andrew Jackson University.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

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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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Automated Proctors Watch Students. Now Senators Are Watching These Companies.

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Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), a group of six Democratic senators sent letters last week to three proctoring companies—ExamSoft, Proctorio and ProctorU—inquiring about the technologies they use to monitor users, how they ensure accuracy and what steps they take to protect students’ privacy. but also ‘Should we do this?’

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Hack Education Weekly News

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It points to policies the university can pro-actively ennact, and laws that could have been enforced by university police.” ” Inside Higher Ed on Robot-Proof : “Northeastern president discusses his new book on how higher education can train students for careers where technology cannot make them redundant.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. 34 Percent Of Graduates Received A Diploma Against District Policy.” The pilot, by the way, is at University College London’s Centre for Blockchain Technologies. I was wondering when #metoo would come to education technology.