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

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Just in the past few months, a law student sued an automated proctoring company , students have complained about their use in student newspaper editorials and professors have compared them to Big Brother. Check out our related article, " The Pandemic Pushed Colleges to Record Lectures. 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. Coursera Is Now a Public Company. By Jeffrey R.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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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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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 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.

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

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

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Chegg Expands Student Debt Relief Benefit for Employees—Up to $5,000 More a Year

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Now, a publicly-traded education company that serves millions of college students has ramped up student debt relief services for its own employees. Chegg , based in Santa Clara, Calif., To be clear, this is not a new perk for Chegg employees. The company employs about 1,100 people worldwide.)

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