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Profs now outsourcing marking to India - 5/3/2010 5:35:58 PM

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http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/802845--profs-now-outsourcing-marking-to-india?bn=1

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Since it was created five years ago, EduMetry has assembled a team of adjunct professors, retired teachers, “homemakers with masters’ degrees” and other university-educated staff, most in India but some in Singapore and Malaysia, to grade 2,000 student assignments a week.

I am wondering why professors do not grade their students themselves? Where are we going? What are students paying for?

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RE: Profs now outsourcing marking to India - 5/3/2010 5:40:30 PM

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I've said it before and I'll say it again: outsourcing will will stop right after someone figures out how to outsource lawyering.

If I was attending a class where the instructor did this I would drop it in an instant. And if I had a child enrolled at that school he or she would not be returning next semester.

The outsourcing of jobs from this country has got to stop.

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RE: Profs now outsourcing marking to India - 5/3/2010 6:23:57 PM

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I had seen this a while back.

I guess the market will decide.

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RE: Profs now outsourcing marking to India - 5/3/2010 11:28:19 PM

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As outsourcing is in most part driven by salary+benefits differences straightforward logic says, it will stop when the salaries equalize, or administrative measures will be taken such as tariffs or some other kind of taxation. In this particular case, I find professors highly irresponsible. Testing students and grading is very important part of teaching. Tuition is constantly going up and professors do not have time to teach (as their value is decided how much research money they bring into the university). Research jobs at the same time are performed mostly by J1 and H2b foreign visitors (to cut labor cost to a minimum). So, Americans contribute with tax money but get very little in return.

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RE: Profs now outsourcing marking to India - 5/4/2010 12:41:52 AM

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What makes it so economicaly advantageous to do this ?

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RE: Profs now outsourcing marking to India - 5/4/2010 7:33:57 AM

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