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

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She saw it as a resource for her teaching. “I At about the same time, though, Rutgers officials sent out an email to all faculty at the university, warning about Course Hero and another service, Chegg, where students were posting faculty tests and exams without permission. “We I found some homework questions.

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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. In July, the company launched the Educator Exchange , an online subscription marketplace where faculty can sell their resources to one another.

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Predictions of Print Textbooks’ Death Remain Greatly Exaggerated

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Even as many traditional textbook providers are transitioning to digital formats, paper and ink have proved stubbornly resilient. Just ask Jessica Reid Sliwerski, CEO of Open Up Resources. The nonprofit publisher of K-12 curriculum launched in 2016 expecting an audience for its digital offerings.

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How Merger of Two Textbook Giants Could Impact Course Materials

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This is the struggle for the control of the infrastructure we use for digital learning,” said Nicole Allen, director of open education for the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, or SPARC. But she said she worries more about how the growth of these new digital options would impact low-income students.

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Top Trends Higher Education Textbook Publishers Must Follow

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This has led to higher education textbook publishers facing the brunt as that’s the only area where students and institutes can reduce their spends, by opting for digital textbooks instead. Students have welcomed this change as they now have a multitude of choice in the digital learning space.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” They recorded school resource officers. Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market.

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