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on the *overwhelming* downsides (and creepiness) of online exam proctoring software, and what professors should be doing instead: writing exams that ask higher Bloom-level questions that can’t be answered with a google search.https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1322369355930165248 …
Another problem with this sort of software is that it tends not to be written by very good programmers.
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Hi Paul, could you give insight for a junior programmer on how to deconstruct things and build the simple part first? Thanks Paul, fan of your work from Indonesia.
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This is true of a huge percentage of software that regular people are forced to use 8 hours a day for work. I once thought people were joking about programmers who can’t complete FizzBuzz. But I’ve met many of them while working on 3rd party integrations.
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Yes, esp considering the recent fiasco with medical board exams in the US having to be cancelled.
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I can imagine! I don’t know much about the details of how the software works, but from what I do understand it’s not open source so we really don’t know what we’re asking students to install on their computers.
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People don’t really “want” to be tested in the first place. I wonder if the underlying problem is that the professors objectives aren’t aligned with the students objectives.
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This is a really weird thing to say. I know a team building ML models to detect items of interest in video streams for online proctoring. Models have to run on the edge (on student devices) in some cases to reduce latency. It's challenging. They are excellent programmers.
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I get it - online proctoring is inherently creepy, because, well, you are monitoring someone in real time. But it can help increase students access to education, and reduce the need to travel. Both important benefits.
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