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Cheating on Chegg? Maybe Not on Its Tutoring Platform

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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. But Chegg doesn’t take action against the person making the request.

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Automated Proctoring Swept In During Pandemic. It’s Likely to Stick Around, Despite Concerns

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There is a lot of concern in higher ed about Chegg and Course Hero,” Urdan says, “which everyone acknowledges are cheating tools.” "We We often found out who the cheater was before Chegg got back to us.” Getting the info from Chegg requires a waiting period,” she adds.

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

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The company invited her on an all-expense-paid trip to its annual conference on teaching at its headquarters in San Francisco. And he said the company’s policies mean that they have to be the ones to make sure the site isn’t being abused. Apparently, that involves lots of free trips for professors to attend its teaching conferences.

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Course Hero Adds $70 Million to Series B Fundraise

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Many of its services are similar to those offered by Chegg, a publicly traded education company that has also seen a meteoric growth in usage and revenue since the pandemic hit. Company officials say it has policies and processes in place to remove offending material (though the onus still falls largely on faculty to report them).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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’” – “Dean Dad” Matt Reed on the #RealCollege conference on food insecurity on college campuses. the nation’s largest virtual charter school management company , as president of academics, policy, and schools. Chegg has acquired Cogeon for $15 million.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. At least, that’s the concern of columnists in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. 3D Printing.

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