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More Students Are Using Chegg to Cheat. Is the Company Doing Enough to Stop It?

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But as courses rushed online during the pandemic, things changed. The biggest facilitator appears to be Chegg, which has become synonymous with cheating. A recent investigation by Forbes magazine called Chegg a “superspreader” of cheating; a majority of the 52 students it interviewed said they used it for that purpose.

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Chegg to Buy Coding Bootcamp Thinkful for $80 Million

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Chegg , a Santa Clara, Calif.-based based publicly traded student services company, plans to buy Thinkful , a Brooklyn-based online coding bootcamp. Both companies’ boards of directors have approved the deal. Both companies’ boards of directors have approved the deal. Chegg had been holding onto $1.1

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Will ChatGPT Make Students Turn Away From Homework-Help Services?

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As companies race to come out with tools they claim can detect when prose was written by a bot, some are wondering whether a previous generation of homework-help tools might soon be rendered obsolete. The homework-help business — led by giants like Chegg and Course Hero — has long been both profitable and controversial.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Chegg Acquires Language Learning Platform; Startup MindX raises $3M

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Textbook and tutoring company Chegg is acquiring a leading language learning platform to expand its offerings into different languages. The company announced it will acquire Busuu, a UK company, for approximately $436 million in an all-cash transaction.

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Chegg Ditches Ingram for FedEx and Eyes International Growth

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Back in 2014, more competition from Amazon had led the Santa Clara, Calif-based Chegg to a deal with book distributor Ingram Content Group. Ingram bought Chegg’s textbook inventory to sell and distribute, and the companies shared the revenues. The Ingram deal was framed as part of Chegg’s strategy to 100 percent digital revenue.

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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. They used a feature of the Blackboard learning-management system to randomize questions for an exam in an introductory chemistry course. “We

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Public Edtech Companies Have Been Rare. These SPACs Will Change That.

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Publicly traded education technology companies are rare. That leaves 2U, Chegg and Stride (formerly known as K12 Inc.) as the remaining trio of prominent edtech companies on the U.S. CLAS.U), a special purpose acquisition company headed by CEO Michael Moe, raised $225 million in its IPO. public market.

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