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FEBRUARY 24, 2021
The biggest facilitator appears to be Chegg, which has become synonymous with cheating. A recent investigation by Forbes magazine called Chegg a “superspreader” of cheating; a majority of the 52 students it interviewed said they used it for that purpose. We can’t go to the library. Because we are at home.
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APRIL 14, 2022
During the past two years of the COVID-19 crisis, there has been a spike in student use of so-called homework help websites —including Chegg and Course Hero—which market themselves as providing study aids but which many professors see as designed to aid student cheating. Facing Bigger Challenges Tutoring centers aren’t just changing tactics.
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MARCH 5, 2020
She followed Course Hero on Twitter, where its feed is full of advice and inspirational quotes for educators. At about the same time, though, Rutgers officials sent out an email to all faculty at the university, warning about Course Hero and another service, Chegg, where students were posting faculty tests and exams without permission. “We
Edsurge
JULY 30, 2018
And now that Reach Capital is done fundraising, it will return its focus to evaluating pitches from education entrepreneurs, all vying for a piece of Reach’s new $82 million fund. based firm has established itself as a familiar name within the education technology industry. In total, this first fund supported 35 investments.
Edsurge
MAY 3, 2019
The announced merger this week between two of the world’s largest textbook publishers—McGraw-Hill and Cengage—could mean more students end up buying subscriptions to digital courseware libraries each semester, rather than making a trip to a bookstore. Only about 20 percent of courses in the U.S.
Edsurge
APRIL 26, 2019
Not so fast, say education publishers and retailers. Instead, educators asked how quickly it could print out materials. higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. K-12 software will reach around $4.5
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
CreatorUp is a digital media studio and training company with an educational program to train aspiring creative professionals in business and digital production. Part of the new capital it’s raised will help flesh out its educational training programs to cover more production skills, says co-founder and CEO Mike Tringe.
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