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Cheating on Chegg? Maybe Not on Its Tutoring Platform

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Must have 7 resources.” That’s an example of a request that can be found on online tutoring services like Chegg, as shared by a senior data scientist at the company, Sanghamitra Deb. Yet this is the kind of “help” that Chegg’s tutoring service can sometimes be used for. based company wants to thwart.

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

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She saw it as a resource for her teaching. “I 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 The company invited her on an all-expense-paid trip to its annual conference on teaching at its headquarters in San Francisco. per month, or $119.40

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Look Who’s Talking—Michael Trucano from the Brookings Institution on AI in education

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List of Takeaways: In-Person Interaction is Invaluable: While virtual communication tools like Zoom have become ubiquitous, there’s no substitute for in-person interactions, especially in events like CoSN 2024. I mean, I get, you know, pitch decks from companies. I’m going to use Chegg PT to do this. 00:02:57 Yeah.

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That’s a Rap! Nearpod Buys Educational Hip Hop Creator, Flocabulary

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It’s out of the ordinary when Nearpod buys a company. The Brooklyn-based company best known for fusing hip hop with educational content in music videos and instructional activities, has been acquired by Nearpod , which helps educators beam digital content to students’ devices. We asked, but he declined.) school district.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last.

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