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. I’ve got to devise a marketing plan for our unit,” he says.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

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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Study Chegg Company Course 100

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

The announced merger this week between two of the world’s largest textbook publishers—McGraw-Hill and Cengage—could mean more students end up buying subscriptions to digital courseware libraries each semester, rather than making a trip to a bookstore. He imagined the same approach will work once Cengage and McGraw-Hill become one company. “It

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Course Chegg Company Libraries 150

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

Just ask Jessica Reid Sliwerski, CEO of Open Up Resources. higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. The reality is these companies are selling “blended” bundles of both print and digital offerings.

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Chegg Software Industry Pearson 161

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

It’s out of the ordinary when Nearpod buys a company. Today it’s adding Flocabulary, to bring hip hop to the library. Combined, the two companies claim they will reach more than 7 million U.S. Through this deal, Nearpod will add one of the more unique, coveted collections of online educational resources to its library.

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Chegg Education Company Libraries 136

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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. Students would be required to pay.

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