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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. We’re teaching students how to read their textbooks.

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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 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. But how to get it, while also making sure everything goes their way?

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Best Annotated Bibliography Generators for Teachers and Students

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How to create an annotated bibliography? Citation Machine Citation Machine by Chegg is another helpful bibliography generator to try out, well , if you can stand the annoying ads. Cite This for Me and BibMe are all Chegg services that are similar to Citation Machine. You can copy and paste it into your paper.

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Comparing spaced repetition algorithms

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In this article, we address more of the technical nuts and bolts behind four popular spaced repetition algorithms —(1) absolute SRS algorithms, (2) relative SRS algorithms, (3) manual SRSs, and (4) hard-coded spaced repetition—and how to determine which type of SRS is right for you.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Via The New York Times : “ New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’ ” Via Buzzfeed : “ California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates.” Via The New York Times : “ Rolling Stone Settles Lawsuit Over Debunked Campus Rape Article.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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No disclosure in this or its Class Central article that it shares investors with these MOOC companies.). Chegg has acquired Cogeon for $15 million. Via Reveal News : “Hidden figures: How Silicon Valley keeps diversity data secret.” . “Reviving the MOOC ” – an op-ed by Stephen Downes.

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