Edsurge
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
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. “I
Edsurge
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Joseph Ching, a junior at Purdue University, says many of his professors have warned students not to use sites like Chegg, where students are posting homework and quiz questions and getting answers from tutors. 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
APRIL 1, 2022
One of our portfolio companies LearnPlatform publishes a regular “ Edtech Top 40 ” list of the most used edtech products in K12 schools nationwide: perhaps unsurprisingly, Google products take 8 of the top 10 spots. But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist. Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8
Edsurge
JULY 28, 2021
Since then, the company has grown and now offers more than 90 courses in 40 languages, including Arabic, Chinese and English, and more regional-specific tongues such as Navajo, Hawaiian, Welsh and Irish Gaelic. Duolingo officially goes public today, with the app-based language tool now has a valuation of outstanding shares at about $3.7
Edsurge
DECEMBER 28, 2018
While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?
Edsurge
JUNE 11, 2020
They largely market edtech tools and services, like online tutoring and digital courses, directly to consumers, not to institutions. Case in point: Online course provider Coursera reported more than 13 million new registered users since mid-March, a 535 percent increase from the same period last year. billion in venture capital.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
Courses involving more technical skills, such as filming with drones or shooting for augmented and virtual reality, can take up to two months. The company also offers an online library of self-paced courses that individuals can access for $25 per month or $200 a year.
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