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Automated Proctoring Swept In During Pandemic. It’s Likely to Stick Around, Despite Concerns

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Check out our related article, " The Pandemic Pushed Colleges to Record Lectures. There is a lot of concern in higher ed about Chegg and Course Hero,” Urdan says, “which everyone acknowledges are cheating tools.” "We We often found out who the cheater was before Chegg got back to us.” The Practice May Be Here to Stay." “As

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Top EdSurge Higher Education Stories of 2021

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Additionally, stories about companies and nonprofits trying to innovate within higher ed attracted a lot of attention, as did several articles about learning science and new teaching practices. Below is a countdown of the top 10 articles of 2021 as voted by reader interest. More Students Are Using Chegg to Cheat. It Depends.

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The Pandemic Is Changing How Colleges Offer Tutoring. Will Students Use It?

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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.

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Some Professors Fight Study-Help Sites. Other Professors Now Use Them.

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All she had to do was fill out a faculty profile, and she happily answered questions about how she had used the service and did an interview for an article on the company’s website. As a recent article in Inside Higher Ed noted, the company spends “multiple millions” each year on outreach to professors. per month, or $119.40

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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Since then, the online education, education technology and workforce innovation industry has gone through three increasingly larger “waves” which I described in that previous article , and concerns that our industry was “ jumping the shark ” in 2017 have been proven premature. Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8

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Best Vocabulary Apps for Students

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Busuu ( iOS and Android ) Busuu, a Chegg service, is an innovative language learning app designed to foster confident communication from the outset. It includes features like study schedules, top articles, and tutor help, all accessible offline for flexible learning.

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The 2018 EdSurde Annual Special: Surgecoin, EduWands and Other News Not Fit for Print

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Chegg appears to have borrowed a page from Duolingo’s previous shenanigan for the Osmosis Pillow , which takes “memory foam” to another level. GETTING GRITTY: All those articles on Huffington Post say your child needs grit and resilience. Company leaders promise (fingers crossed!)

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