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Cheating on Chegg? Maybe Not on Its Tutoring Platform

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That’s an example of a request that can be found on online tutoring services like Chegg, as shared by a senior data scientist at the company, Sanghamitra Deb. Yet this is the kind of “help” that Chegg’s tutoring service can sometimes be used for. But Chegg doesn’t take action against the person making the request.

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The Post-Pandemic Outlook for Edtech

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Not all established edtech products are compliant with policies that protect students with disabilities, which is causing schools extra grief during the pandemic, Krull says: “For newer edtech companies trying to get into districts, that would be a good thing to have high on their list. billion in venture capital.

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Acquisition Autopsy: Details—and Questions—Behind MissionU’s $4M Sale to WeWork

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million, starting with a $3 million seed round in 2016, and followed by a $8.5 Did MissionU’s investors lose out? At first glance, it would seems so, based on the $4 million of stock that was part of the deal. MissionU had raised $11.5 million Series A round in 2017. But MissonU had only spent a portion of that money.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” More on the policy change via IHE. ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. ” “The Current State of Educational Blogging 2016,” according to Edublogs’ Sue Waters. Here’s the very short press release from the Department of Education. Very thorough research, gj.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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