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4/1/2015

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  • Campus Bookstores To Sell Exam Proctoring Next to Hoodies, Candy Bars and Textbooks

    Barnes & Noble is bringing digital proctoring into its college bookstores. The retail bookseller has teamed up with ProctorFree to allow students to use financial aid disbursement to purchase test-proctoring sessions.

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  • Adult Ed Lagging Way Behind in Tech Use

    While schools have placed a great deal of attention on technology in the classroom, one instructional segment that has been left behind, it appears, is adult education. Although 86 percent of adult education administrators and practitioners said they believe that technology solutions can "effectively support" adult education, only 54 percent of students in those programs always have access on site to computers for instructional purposes. Another 36 percent have only "occasional" access, and the bulk of the remainder have even less, according to a new report from Tyton Partners.

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  • PAR Framework Partners with American Institutes for Research

    The Predictive Analytics Reporting Framework has partnered with the American Institutes for Research in an effort to develop new metrics and measurements to help guide national policies related to higher education outcomes.

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  • MIT Scales Up Homework Reviews

    MIT researchers have developed a new system to help instructors review computer science homework assignments in courses with hundreds or thousands of students.

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