It was my first time at OEB where I joined my team and spent three crazy days full of tech inspiration and pep talks to smart people. You can’t even imagine what a striking feeling I had introducing new AI/machine learning technology EMMA (authorship definition). So now I would like to say a few words about the conf, what we liked, as well as what could be improved.

Unicheck recently had a thrilling opportunity to interview Todd VanDuzer, an $85,000 scholarship winner, CEO and co-founder of Student-Tutor. He also has a 7-year unrivalled experience working as a tutor and SAT & ACT course developer.

Education has long gone digital. Educators successfully use online platforms to exchange feedback with their students, share assignments, plan their lessons or check for papers plagiarism. Nevertheless, there are countless free software options available online, using them still entails some hidden costs. Actually, average expenses can reach up to 3,000 dollars per teacher. The hidden fees are usually associated with some additional features or expanding the number of users.

Student led conferences have recently replaced teacher-parent ones. There are many reasons of that phenomenon. Before attending teacher-led conferences, parents are prepared to hear teacher’s reprimands and a call to action – tell their children off. At the same time, teachers feel uncomfortable either because they mainly should talk about the pupil’s drawbacks and how to improve them, or they explain their marks basis. That kind of meeting is not efficient, and student led conferences solve that problem. Moreover, preparation takes time, and instead of checking student papers, teachers spend their time on a red tape.

There is a new milestone in the development of education now. Plagiarism is a pivotal problem many higher educational institutions face today. To use plagiarism checkers has become vital for the academic cheating detection. However, it is not the only challenge they should be ready to take on.

Last week Unicheck officially started partnering up with the King Juan Carlos University located in Madrid, Spain.

The Spanish university has already obtained an annual license to use the Unicheck plagiarism checker and take academic cheating under control. 37,939 students of this university can now instantly scan their papers for originality and get accurate search results.

Writing skills are what every student should have for successful studying and good grades. The students should write their own original and unique texts that can be easily checked with a online plagiarism checker. It is a common situation when students can’t write texts in a proper way, although they can speak fluently on different topics. Actually, even perfect orators, can’t write their speech well.

Modern educators should be more skillful than before. The world changes faster year by year. Such quick alterations force people to think in a different way. The most important is that people who work in other fields should keep up with times. Teachers are those who cherish a new generation and give them all skills and knowledge required for modern life. Therefore, teachers should obtain those skills and knowledge, otherwise their teaching methods are not effective.

Computer literacy has been taught in schools already for years. Every year school curriculum has more and more IT classes. Students around the world take typing classes and learn how to use computers and different educational software like free plagiarism checker, for example when the school starts. Of course, it’s not enough for their future work and study. That’s why,  schools have recently added some coding classes to their study programs.

These classes do not only develop students’ computer skills, but they also help students understand the world around them better.

A classic learning must be an interactive process. This is a two-way process – the information goes from educator to student and student’s feedback returns to educator. Recent research proved that learning is the most effective when it’s personalized. This type of learning helps deliver knowledge to students better than traditional learning techniques.

Both students and teachers should know how to act in the learning process. But if educators learn this for years when teaching, students may not know how to deal with it properly. That’s what educators should explain them, but unfortunately not everyone does.