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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.

Edsurge

Since the early days of online instruction, the response of many new instructors has been to figure out how to transfer elements of their face-to-face class into the online format. Some examples include learning management systems, lecture capture tools, and early online meeting systems.

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

Hack Education

Silicon Valley's historical amnesia — the inability to learn about, to recognize, to remember what has come before — is deeply intertwined with the idea of "disruption" and its firm belief that new technologies are necessarily innovative and are always "progress. AllLearn was short for Alliance for Lifelong Learning.

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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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