Education 2.0 & 3.0

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Turnitin claims its device is 98% accurate but some institutions are concerned about not having enough time to make a decision

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Five high school students helped our tech columnist test a ChatGPT detector coming from Turnitin to 2.1 million teachers. It missed enough to get someone in trouble.

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We explore the area of assessment in a remote and potentially asynchronous learning environment.

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Next week, Turnitin's AI text detection tool will go live - and the news is causing widespread consternation (and, dare I say it, panic) across the sector.

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Turnitin has entered into an agreement with Nordic private equity firm Procuritas to acquire Ouriginal.

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Stamping out student plagiarism is big business. How big? $1.735 billion, to be exact. That’s the price that Advance, a privately held media, communications, and technology company, will pay to purchase Turnitin, the 800-pound gorilla of plagiarism-detection services. Although not the largest ed-tech deal ever made, it is, in the words of one analyst, “massive.”

 

So what does the deal, announced on Wednesday, mean for higher education and for education technology? We talked with a few ed-tech observers, as well as senior officers at Turnitin and Advance, to sort it all out. Their takeaways:

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