How Remote Proctoring has upgraded the E-Learning Industry?
The rising digitization in the education sector is increasing the reach of education across various places in the country owing to the surging use of smartphones and the availability of the internet at cheaper prices or free of cost.The remote proctoring system is helping several institutes to increase their reach and offer education to the students situated at remote locations without them requiring to travel or shift from their homes. This is overall increasing the scope for the e-learning industry to merge with the education sector.
Here are a few ways in which remote proctoring technology is helping in the e-learning industry.
Cost reduction-
Institutes conduct examinations for the students several times a year. It requires papers, question papers, classroom space, evaluators, and invigilators to conduct the exam. The institutes have to charge examination fees to the students to cover the excessive expenses.
Making use of an online method of education reduces the institute’s cost of conducting exams to a great extent. It enables the institutes to conduct exams for a large number of students at the same cost. The students just have to register themselves for the exam and they can attempt it using a laptop and internet connection.
The software conducts all types of examinations including entrance tests, mock tests, and coding tests for all types of questions such as MCQs, codes, descriptive, numerical, and others. This offers high productivity and varied use of the software for conducting different types of exams. The cost of investment in the software might be on the higher side but it is a one-time expense that will be beneficial for the institute in the long run.
Better Accessibility-
Location barriers have proven to be a major limitation for several students across the country. Several students are not able to move to a different city for education due to various reasons like affordability, responsibilities, and others. Hence, the accessibility of education is a problem in several regions of our country.
The introduction of NEP 2020 is focused on making education accessible to students across all regions of the country and making it accessible through institutes. The institutes have limited infrastructure to accommodate a large number of students. Hence, online education is helping both the students and institutes, as well as increasing the rate of admissions in India.
The rising smartphone penetration and inexpensive internet facilities have made online education accessible to students even in remote areas. Hence e-learning is witnessing growth in the education sector. The system is accessible to all the students and they can just enroll and learn skills and gain knowledge.
Admission to a Large Number of Students-
In the traditional methods of education, there are infrastructure limitations that force the institutes to create more than one division of a class or admit students only up to their capacity of offering infrastructure. This includes classroom space, lab facilities, manpower for handling, and others.
All these limitations put a hindrance for a large number of students to get admission to the institutes of their choice or opt for courses and subjects they wish to study. They are left with either settling for what is available or waiting for another year.
However, an online education system is capable of teaching a large number of students using video streaming applications.
Further, the Remote Proctoring system has the capacity to conduct exams for high concurrency of students simultaneously, even at low bandwidth to be accessible to all the students. Hence, it enables educational facilities for a large number of students.
Improves Transparency of Exam-
Online exams hold a high risk of cheating and malpractices as the students are located remotely and there is no invigilator to physically monitor them during the exam. The students can impersonate other students, make use of books, and mobile phones during exams, and even copy-paste answers.
To avoid this, the online proctored exams come to the rescue. An online proctored exam offers run-time monitoring of the students during exams. The software makes use of the candidate’s computer’s camera to take frequent screenshots of the student’s screen. Further, the software checks the ID of the student before the exam to verify authenticity.
Moreover, the software disables cut copy paste options in the exam window.
Conducts Fair Exams-
The online examination system makes sure that there is no bias for any student in terms of evaluation or exam conduction. The exams are conducted in fair means for all the students without hampering the integrity of the institute.
The evaluation process is conducted by the software itself. It verifies the student’s answers with previously fed answers in the system and gives grades or marks to the students. This helps the institute to maintain high transparency and fairness in the process of evaluation.
Conclusion-
Remote proctoring has eliminated the worry of the institute regarding the authenticity of the exams and the integrity of the institute. It has built trust among the institute that the exams are fair and the results are accurate. They believe that the software has been performing better than the traditional methods of education by offering high efficiency and accuracy of operations. In this way, e-learning is witnessing a boost over the past few years in the education industry.
