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

Edsurge

Despite all that opposition, and the fact that colleges are returning to in-person teaching, sales of proctoring software have been robust. Still others have pointed out that savvy students can still find ways to get around the snooping software. And some students complained about putting the software on their computers.

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

Edsurge

In 2020, the digital proctoring company Proctorio brought a lawsuit against Ian Linkletter, who was then a learning technology specialist at the University of British Columbia. The videos, which had been posted by the company as “unlisted” on Youtube, described how Proctorio’s software works.

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

The Hechinger Report

Now, simple AI-driven tools like these chatbots, plagiarism-detecting software and apps to check spelling and grammar are being joined by new, more powerful – and controversial – applications that answer academic questions, grade assignments, recommend classes and even teach. Jarrod Morgan, founder and chief strategy officer, ProctorU.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

I was a guest speaker in the MA in Elearning class at Cork Institute of Technology this morning. 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. And that's surveillance.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

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

Hack Education

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." Plagiarism detection software originated at universities.

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Online Proctoring is Trending and here is All You Must Know!

Think Exam

Online Proctoring is an advanced level technology designed to enable the candidates to attempt an exam online from any remote location, all the while assuring the reliability of the test. In the beginning, the test-takers need to verify their authenticity after which they are monitored in real-time through webcam.

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