Edsurge
MAY 16, 2018
Chegg announced today that it bought the Berkeley-based startup for about $15 million in an all-cash transaction. They started the company to solve a challenge that they both knew well: how to provide fast and actionable feedback to writing students. Even so, Ramirez described the edtech environment as “extremely challenging.”
Edsurge
OCTOBER 6, 2020
With so many classes online during the pandemic—many of them taught by professors still struggling to figure out how to teach in the format—students are increasingly turning to homework-help websites. I reached out to Chegg, and sure enough, business there is booming. Students pay for a subscription of $14.99
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Edsurge
JANUARY 5, 2022
But rather than play-by-play news, readers sought analysis and commentary about how the crisis continues to change culture and conditions at colleges across the country. Coursera Is Now a Public Company. How Remote Learning Subverts Power and Privilege in Higher Education. More Students Are Using Chegg to Cheat.
Edsurge
APRIL 14, 2022
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.
Edsurge
JUNE 11, 2020
By mid-March, schools closed, sending students home to figure out how to keep learning from their kitchen tables. But how to make the most of the moment? Soon, schools would be inundated with sales pitches from edtech companies, and it didn’t take long before they started pushing back against those that seemed predatory.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Last quarter, online program management company 2U shocked investors with worse than expected losses and, going forward, lower average program enrollment for some of its largest online graduate programs. based company’s leadership remained foggy on some aspects of its strategy to survive in an increasingly competitive industry.
Edsurge
MAY 13, 2020
The 30-credit GSV MBA program offered by Belhaven University is designed for people who want to start businesses and are ready to learn how to develop concrete plans and attract investors. Over the years, GSV has invested in the likes of Facebook, Spotify and Twitter alongside education companies including Chegg and Coursera.
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