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Top EdSurge Higher Education Stories of 2021

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But rather than play-by-play news, readers sought analysis and commentary about how the crisis continues to change culture and conditions at colleges across the country. Young This analysis of a major MOOC provider proved prescient; the nonprofit was purchased later in the year. More Students Are Using Chegg to Cheat.

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How Merger of Two Textbook Giants Could Impact Course Materials

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Her group recently produced a landscape analysis of scholarly and textbook publishing laying out its broader critique. Hansen mentioned expecting new digital products from competitors such as Chegg, and added, “I would not be surprised if Amazon builds something in this space.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Chegg has acquired WriteLab for $15 million. Via The Associated Press : “Schools See Steep Drop in Librarians , New Analysis Finds.” Selected has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from Propel Capital and Kapor Capital for its teacher-hiring software. WeWork has acquired MissionU. MissionU will close its doors.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Edsurge : “ Cheating on Chegg ? ” So Chegg’s algorithms declare you’re a cheater, and you don’t get a tutor. .” Reuters reports that SpringerNature is planning to IPO too. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. Maybe Not on Its Tutoring Platform.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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And as Essa told Inside Higher Ed , the problems with the data and analysis also raised questions about education technology research more broadly: “Maybe one of the conclusions that could be derived from this is that we really don’t have a strong community to test and validate these claims? They want the bundle.

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Getting Smart and the XQ Institute have released a “landscape analysis of competency-based education.” “ Ed Tech Cybersecurity : Suppose they gave a data breach and nobody came,” writes Phil Hill on the Chegg data breach. .” Via The Atlantic : “How High Schools Shaped American Cities.”