Abstract
Identity verification and proctoring of online students are one of the key challenges to online learning today. Especially for online certification and accreditation, the training organizations need to verify that the online students who completed the learning process and received the academic credits are those who registered for the courses. Furthermore, they need to ensure that these students complete all the activities of online training without cheating or inappropriate behaviours. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated (abruptly in certain cases) the migration and implementation of online education strategies and consequently the need for safe mechanisms to authenticate and proctor online students. Nowadays, there are several technologies with different grades of automation. In this paper, we deeply describe a specific solution based on the authentication of different biometric technologies and an automatic proctoring system (system workflow as well as AI algorithms), which incorporates features to solve the main concerns in the market: highly scalable, automatic, affordable, with few hardware and software requirements for the user, reliable and passive for the student. Finally, the technological performance test of the large scale system, the usability-privacy perception survey of the user and their results are discussed in this work.
Highlights
There is no doubt that online learning has been gaining popularity throughout the past years
SYSTEM OVERVIEW The system we present in this work aims to provide a practical cyber-security solution for both a) continuous online user identification and b) monitoring using automatic signal processing and a computer monitoring system
Since keystroke dynamics samples taken from students cannot be labelled manually, the Table 4 only show an image and audio processing results
Summary
There is no doubt that online learning has been gaining popularity throughout the past years. This phenomenon is not surprising given that online learning allows education institutes to operate at a lower cost and with greater reachout to more students. Educational institutions are offering courses online to leverage the benefits of online learning. This is especially so since the advent of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). COVID-19 has been a challenge for traditional institutes offering face-toface teaching, and these institutions have had to migrate (in a very short period of time) to a fully online education model.
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