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Online Cheating Isn’t Going Away. Use It as a Teachable Moment for Students and Educators

Edsurge

Preventing cheating becomes a game of cat-and-mouse, said Ashley Norris, chief academic officer at ProctorU, a company that provides secure live and automated online proctoring services. But Schreiner has not seen data that shows an increase in cheating since schools started closing.

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

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Professors at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County presented one such idea at the recent Educause edtech conference in Philadelphia. Despite all that opposition, and the fact that colleges are returning to in-person teaching, sales of proctoring software have been robust.

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From admissions to teaching to grading, AI is infiltrating higher education

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A company presentation shows students being scored on a five-point scale in areas such as openness, motivation, agreeableness and “neuroticism.”. Jarrod Morgan, founder and chief strategy officer, ProctorU. Related: Subscribing to college and other visions of higher education’s future.

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

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" (If this were a literature class, I would tie this attitude to the Italian Futurists and to fascism, but that’s a presentation for another day.). ProctorU was founded at Andrew Jackson University. You don't need to know that history to build on what they made. In technology, all that matters is tomorrow."

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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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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

Edsurge

So one of the challenges we've really been dealing with is test security because of course everyone wants to go right to ProctorU and have that live proctoring experience. We've done some webinars for engagement, doing synchronous sessions, different assessments and then how to teach synchronously or asynchronously.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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MCGRAW-HILL EDUCATION AND PROCTORU ( mheducation.com ) & ( www.proctoru.com ) McGraw-Hill Education and ProctorU announced a new partnership that will enable higher education institutions to deliver digital ALEKS Placement, Preparation and Learning (ALEKS PPL) exams with ProctorU’s secure remote proctoring system.

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