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Keeping an Eye on Online Test-Takers

March 4, 2013 /

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The developing technology for remote proctoring may end up being as good — or even better — than the live proctoring at bricks-and-mortar universities

MILLIONS of students worldwide have signed up in the last year for MOOCs, short for massive open online courses — those free, Web-based classes available to one and all and taught by professors at Harvard, Duke, M.I.T. and other universities.

But when those students take the final exam in calculus or genetics, how will their professors know that the test-takers on their distant laptops are doing their own work, and not asking Mr. Google for help?

By ANNE EISENBERG

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/technology/new-technologies-aim-to-foil-online-course-cheating.html?utm_campaign=Feed:%20mediaredef%20%28jason%20hirschhorn%27s%20Media%20ReDEFined%29&utm_medium=feed&_r=2&adxnnl=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&utm_source=feedburner&adxnnlx=1362402639-CzIiqmJF5jfBgwx8mqJ7Uw

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