About Us
At the Georgia Tech Education Technology Lab, we build innovative technology to assist in the distribution of online education with integrity at scale. Our current research areas include: contract cheating detection, large scale identification of copyright content distribution, and recommendation systems for efficient online classroom collaboration.
Papers
Recommendation System
Embedding a post recommendation system in online course forums improves students’ ability to find relevant course content.
Learning @ Scale – Jun. 2022
Jack Marker
Using JackMarker to embed a hidden, traceable, and unique token within assignments and course documents facilitates tracking copyright content being distributed online. GitDown extends this work by locating inappropriately uploaded online content and requesting that they be removed.
Learning @ Scale – Jun. 2021
Examinator
Examinator compares pairs of take-home exams to select which should be manually checked for plagiarism.
Learning @ Scale – Jun. 2020
BELT
In this work, we present Bluejeans codE Leak deTection (BELT), a system that monitors online BlueJeans meetings for shared code and sends timely warning messages to meeting participants.
Learning @ Scale – Aug. 2020
PARQR: Automatic Post Suggestion in Piazza
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Learning @ Scale – Jun. 2019
Jack Watson
Our agent, Jack Watson, monitors auction sites, identifies posted homework assignments, and provides students with watermarked solutions that can be automatically identified upon submission of the assignment.
Learning @ Scale – Jun. 2019
PARQR: Piazza
We introduce PARQR, a tool for online education forums that reduces duplicate posts by 40% in a degree seeking online masters program at a top university.
Learning @ Scale – Jun. 2019
News
Georgia Tech warns physics students who cheated: Admit it or risk failing
4/30/2022
The Georgia Tech campus is buzzing about the allegation that students in physics classes posted questions from their final exams to the online tutoring service Chegg where tutors provided answers.
Georgia Tech Has An Undercover Cheating Bot
1/30/2020
The GT bot infiltrates cheating sites—of which there are hundreds—and poses as a for-hire writer and homework cheater, bidding on work offered up by Georgia Tech students who want to pay for their work to be done by someone else.
Cheating, Inc.: How Writing Papers for American College Students Has Become a Lucrative Profession Overseas
09/07/2019
Cheating in college is nothing new, but the internet now makes it possible on a global, industrial scale. Sleek websites — with names like Ace-MyHomework and EssayShark — have sprung up that allow people in developing countries to bid on and complete American homework assignments.
AI bot poses as essay writer for hire to catch contract cheaters
08/21/2019
A university has developed a bot that poses as an essay mill to catch students in the act, raising new ethical questions about how to tackle contract cheating.
OMSCS Dominates at Learning @ Scale
07/25/2019
OMSCS had influence in all areas of the conference, from leadership to research. OMSCS Associate Director of Student Experience David Joyner served as general chair for this year’s conference. Yet he wasn’t the only OMSCS connection in the conferences’ leadership.
Buying College Essays Is Now Easier Than Ever. But Buyer Beware
04/10/2019
Concern is growing about a burgeoning online market for essays that students can buy and turn in as their own work. And schools are trying new tools to catch it.
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