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

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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 This is the engine that lets it boast a library of “30-million course-specific study materials.”

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That’s a Rap! Nearpod Buys Educational Hip Hop Creator, Flocabulary

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Today it’s adding Flocabulary, to bring hip hop to the library. Through this deal, Nearpod will add one of the more unique, coveted collections of online educational resources to its library. In 2017, the two companies did a short-term partnership where Flocabulary made a dozen of its hip hop videos available in Nearpod’s library.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via CMX : “ How Edcamp Scaled Up 1,500 Community Events Connecting Educators All Over the World.” ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. Via Inside Higher Ed : “Ithaka S+R and OCLC Research launch project to examine how universities and their libraries are changing.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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” “My Statement: White House HBCU Event” by Dillard University president Walter Kimbrough. ” (Did you know he recorded his first mixtape at the Chicago Public Library’s YOUmedia studio ?). .” More on changing her tune from The Chronicle of Higher Education. ” More via The New York Times.