Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2022

We were just going through what I thought in my brain, where we wanted to place that on the schedule, and just hoped that students [then] had access to chemistry tutoring.” Those for-profit sites, which charge students monthly subscription fees for access, claim to fill in a gap in academic assistance that they say colleges fail to provide.

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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. That’s the way Cengage created its subscription product, says Hansen.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

To support that effort, the startup has raised $1 million in a seed round from a group of investors that include Metallavon VC, an early-stage investment fund based in Greece, and LearnStart, the seed fund affiliated with edtech investment firm Learn Capital.

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Training Chegg Company Course 70

Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

Follett believes [the best practices] would effectively restrict access to low-cost used and rental course materials on campus,” the statement reads. Other textbook distributors, including Chegg, Inc. Ray Griffin, CEO of Follet, says his company has been working to find and remove counterfeit materials from its library.

Pearson 73

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

“Researchers say removal of an IRS tool for financial aid applicants may have slowed FAFSA submissions, while college aid groups warn that affected students could already be losing out on aid,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. “A bipartisan proposal in the U.S.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Siegler: “ The End of the Library.” Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

” (Did you know he recorded his first mixtape at the Chicago Public Library’s YOUmedia studio ?). ” Via the press release : “ Cengage , McGraw-Hill Education , and Pearson have joined forces with Ingram and Chegg , Inc. Testing company Examity has raised $21 million from University Ventures and Inherent Group.

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