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Education Technology’s Machine Learning Problem—and Responsibility

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The speakers were Carlos Escapa (Senior Principal, AI/ML Business Development, Amazon Web Services), Vivienne Ming (Founder and CEO, Socos Labs), Matthew Ramirez (Director of Product Management, AI Writing Tools, Chegg) and Andrew Sutherland (CTO and co-founder, Quizlet).

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Top Trends Higher Education Textbook Publishers Must Follow

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Companies like Chegg, eFollett, and BookRenter are offering new textbooks on rent for less than the price of a used book. REQUEST DEMO READ MORE. According to a survey by McKinsey, there has been a steady growth in the textbook rental market, significantly affecting the new textbook sales in recent years.

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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

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Similarly, Pearson has made some of its textbooks available for rent through Chegg. REQUEST DEMO READ MORE. Students can access more than 20,000 course materials— courseware, eBooks, online homework and study tools, across more than 70 disciplines and 675 courses. but they do get to save money through this model.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” In fact, Axios suggests that Google might have staged the demo it gave of its new voice assistant. Chegg has acquired WriteLab for $15 million. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Despite the headlines , Google Duplex did not defeat “the Turing Test.” Selected has raised $1.2 WeWork has acquired MissionU.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. But when he and the head of the UN Kofi Annan went to demo the device, its signature feature — a hand crank that would power it — fell off.

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