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

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As more colleges and school districts prepare to resume remote instruction for the fall, educators may worry how to prevent cheating when assignments and exams are held online. Part of the issue when designing assignments and exams to deter cheating is recognizing what cheating in 2020 looks like.

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Pushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their Use

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Instead of reserving them for high-stakes assessments like final exams, some professors now use these tools for routine work like weekly quizzes. million exams. We have 2 to 4 million weekly students who are using the product,” he adds, noting that the company was used in 6 million exams in all of 2019. In October we did 3.5

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US Edtech Funding Already Nears $1 Billion in First Half of 2019

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education technology industry appears on track to surpass the amount of investor funding tallied in recent years. educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to support educators and learners across preK-12 and postsecondary education.

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How to Assess Learning in a Pandemic

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In the latest episode of EdSurge Live, we interviewed two professors who have long questioned traditional methods of grading about how to approach exams, essays and other assessments next semester: Susan D. Tony Crider, professor of astrophysics at Elon University, offers his students “ epic finales” instead of final exams.

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Can a Critic of Edtech Change a Controversial Homework-Help Site From the Inside?

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billion dollars , takes pains to argue that it forbids its users from downloading materials off the site for the purpose of cheating, or to upload answers to homework or exams. It provides a temptation to students who are looking for exam answers and want to cheat in class.” The company he’s joining, valued at more than $3.6

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How Does A Tool That Detects Cheating With ChatGPT Grapple With ‘False Positives’?

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His professor said he’d used ChatGPT to take a history exam, the charge buttressed by GPTZero, one of the many new tools that have emerged to try to detect student use of generative AI systems. William Quarterman, a student at the University of California at Davis, was accused of cheating. In practice, it’s proven to be a little thorny.

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EdSurge’s Year in Review: The Top 10 K-12 Stories of 2021

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What Teachers Pay Teachers Is Learning From Bad Lessons and Upset Teachers by Stephen Noonoo The popular lesson planning site Teachers Pay Teachers has long struggled with allegations of plagiarism, racist lesson plans and poor content quality—drawing the ire of teachers and social media users.