Paranoia about cheating is making online education terrible for everyone
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/5/4/21241062/schools-cheating-proctorio-artificial-intelligence
A sudden switch to online learning reveals the choices ahead for educators.
When student Marium Raza learned that her online biochemistry exam at the University of Washington would have a digital proctor, she wanted to do her research. The system, provided by a service called Proctorio, would rely on artificial intelligence and a webcam to monitor her while she worked. In other words, as tests must happen remotely in the Covid-19 crisis, Raza’s school is one of many using a mixture of robots and video feeds to make sure students don’t cheat.