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.
Edsurge
MARCH 5, 2020
Soon someone from the company reached out to her to offer her full access to the site for free, which costs students either $39.95 This is the engine that lets it boast a library of “30-million course-specific study materials.” One of the other giants of the study-aid world, Chegg, has also come under criticism by professors.
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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. Everyone is basically stuck buying that $100 access code.”
Edsurge
APRIL 26, 2019
In a 2018 survey of college students, the trade publication Library Journal found that 75 percent say that reading print books is easier than e-books. Even the most digitally connected educator will have access to a printer, Fields said. There’s no need for an internet connection or to charge batteries, she notes. “I
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
The company also offers an online library of self-paced courses that individuals can access for $25 per month or $200 a year. A sizable portion of CreatorUp’s clients come from the education industry, including Cengage and Chegg, as well as community colleges and universities.
Kitaboo on EdTech
JUNE 13, 2019
Cengage recently introduced a new subscription model that gives students access to all of the company’s digital course materials for a semester or an year. Students can access more than 20,000 course materials— courseware, eBooks, online homework and study tools, across more than 70 disciplines and 675 courses.
Edsurge
JULY 30, 2018
We are advocates for early and equal access to education,” said Jeff Dunn, President and CEO of Sesame Workshop,” told EdSurge via email. “If The most recent of these, the writing feedback assistant WriteLab, was acquired by Chegg , a publicly-traded education company, for $15 million. WriteLab (Chegg). Blendspace (TES Global).
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