Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Pearson reported that its revenues from e-book rentals have grown by 22 percent, after reducing the rental price for 2,000 titles in fall 2017. Speaking on CNBC , Fallon quipped that the “biggest competitor in higher education is second-hand sales of our own textbooks.” He added: “The Spotify generation—they want to rent, not own.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

That appears to be the hope of officials at the two companies, which have both been trying for years to shift the focus of their businesses from selling print books to shipping software and other online tools, and have recently been experimenting with subscription models. Only about 20 percent of courses in the U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Booksellers who have taken those steps already include Barnes & Noble Education, Chegg, Inc., Ingram Book Group, MBS Textbook Exchange and Valore.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

Other textbook distributors, including Chegg, Inc. and Ingram Book Group, have both complied with the publishers’ guidelines, which require the distributors to thoroughly verify who they purchase from and more closely scan for counterfeit textbooks.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 25, 2019

A lot of big names in the publishing industry have had to restructure business operations due to the decreasing number of print book sales. Switching over to digital publishing will also reduce the loss from unsold books. In spite of declining print sales, some publishers are still reluctant to make the shift.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

By leveraging the digital medium, textbook publishers decided to fight the monopoly and try to provide reasonably priced books. This decrease in state funds have compelled educational institutes to prescribe high priced books, so that they can earn from their bookstore contracts. Related: Are etextbooks More Affordable Than Textbooks.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

At the time, Varsity Tutors offered an online directory where people could book local tutors for in-person sessions. Varsity Tutors is not the only one chasing the tutoring market, which is saturated with traditional, brick-and-mortar competitors like Kumon and Sylvan Learning and online upstarts like Chegg and Wyzant.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

I mean will technology replace teachers, will the Internet replace teachers a long time ago centuries ago people asked will books replace teachers? I’m going to use Chegg PT to do this. So this some of this stuff isn’t new necessarily. 00:11:48 Speaker 2 I mean initially like this is going to change everything.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2020

Online tests have also meant a booming business for companies that sell homework and test answers, including Chegg and Course Hero. a month, Chegg is offering a new service that provides fast answers to math problems submitted by smartphone camera, step-by-step solution included.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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. Scribbr Scribbr is one of my favorite citation and bibliography generators out there.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2018

I'm thinking you could sell a single book for $120 and now you're giving unlimited access for $120 total. These are students that are buying a used book from another student. Tell me a little bit about some of your recent partnerships with companies such as Chegg. Chegg provides, amongst other things, tutoring services.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2016

Website Review: Chegg. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, CSG Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers , CAEP reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and a weekly contributor to TeachHUB.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

Reading the book “Accidental Empires,” my favorite tech history, helped me imagine that an academic system was more than just another enterprise application; it was an operating system or platform for instruction. Chegg was founded in 2005 and went public eight years later in 2013.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2017

They include Facebook, Uber, Lyft, Spotify, Warby Parker, Casper, Birchbox, Plated, 2U, and Chegg. “In As college gets more and more expensive, we will see more of a willingness to hedge that risk,” says Akers, who is author of the book, “Game of Loans: The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It’s also integrated into the university’s payment system, allowing users to charge books to their student account. “If About five to 10 years ago, students started to vote with their wallets and decide they're going to buy their book materials online,” Kaji says, which has led to declining bookstore sales.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

So what happens is, a student goes to class, and within the first few weeks they have to make a very fast judgment call on whether or not to buy a used book for their course or to try to hold off and not buy anything at all. And so our idea was simple: to connect the two by allowing students to pay per use for their book.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2017

Yet another student book exchange. Chegg (or Amazon for that matter)? Startups that are attempting to build the following tools are at least 10 years too late to the party, especially if they’re attempting to tackle the US market. How are you better than. Yet another LMS.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

” The winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes include Harvard University’s Matthew Desmond for his book Evicted and the Salt Lake Tribune’s staff for its reporting on sexual assault at BYU. ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. Upgrades and Downgrades. Very thorough research, gj.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Meanwhile on Campus… Via the Dallas News : “Self-published ‘ Pepe the Frog ’ kids’ book is conservative but not alt-right, Denton ISD admin says.” Jen Howard on “What Happened to Google’s Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books ?” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

” A data breach at Chegg – more details in the data and surveillance section below. Via Techcrunch : “ Chegg resets 40 million user passwords after data breach.” Nature’s Nathaniel Comfort reviews the new book Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are : “ Genetic determinism rides again.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).” And digital bits have replaced the need to cut down trees to make paper and waste ink to create those books.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 2, 2018

Via NPR : “ Dolly Parton ’s Nonprofit Reaches Milestone With 100 Million Books Sent To Children.” Via Edsurge : “ Cheating on Chegg ? ” So Chegg’s algorithms declare you’re a cheater, and you don’t get a tutor. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. .”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

I’ve got Joshua Hunt’s new book The University of Nike sitting here on my desk. Here he is in The New York Times : “Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: College Athletics and Its Corporate Sponsors.” Via The Washington Post : “ SAT reclaims title of most widely used college admission test.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Via Techcrunch : “ Apple ’s ‘Everyone Can Create’ curriculum launches on Apple Books.” ” Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “Education Company Chegg Acknowledges Data Breach , Puts 40 Million Users on Notice.” ” (Narrator voice: they do not.).

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