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

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One reason colleges are holding onto proctoring tools, Urdan adds, is that many colleges plan to expand their online course offerings even after campus activities return to normal. 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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Course Hero Adds $70 Million to Series B Fundraise

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When Course Hero raised $10 million in early February, the amount seemed curiously small for $1.1 Last week, Course Hero secured an additional $70 million in an extension of its Series B round, courtesy of some of the biggest names in the financial sector—TPG, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and GSV. It kept its $1.1 billion valuation.)

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With No Study Buddies, More College Students Turn to Cheating

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

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Labazzo stumbled upon the Course Hero website when she was preparing to teach a big undergraduate course for the first time. I found some quizzes and tests,” she said, noting that plenty of those materials and PowerPoint slides from other professors were easily found on Course Hero about the subject she was teaching, biomaterials.

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The Post-Pandemic Outlook for Edtech

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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.

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

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Current areas of inquiry include artificial intelligence in education, the use of digital educational credentials and, more broadly, emerging edtech policies, initiatives, and institutions after the pandemic. Well, of course, we’ve been using AI and asset. I’m going to use Chegg PT to do this.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” More on the policy change via IHE. ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. ” The story praises the work of Tristan Denley and his course recommendation tool Degree Compass. Here’s the very short press release from the Department of Education. “A bipartisan proposal in the U.S.