Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Key features like voice search, Word of the Day, integrated thesaurus, example sentences, and audio pronunciations elevate the learning experience. Busuu ( iOS and Android ) Busuu, a Chegg service, is an innovative language learning app designed to foster confident communication from the outset.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 25, 2019

For example, students graduating with a computer science degree might not know to code in real life. Companies like Chegg, eFollett, and BookRenter are offering new textbooks on rent for less than the price of a used book. Collaborate with Industry Experts: There seems to be a massive mismatch between employer needs and student skills.

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Trends eBook Education Industry 97

eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

That’s one big area and I think and whether it’s decision and and then how important those decisions are and you know where there are consequential decisions about, for example, some kid getting assigned to this class or not or passing a class or or getting a a A grade on this test or not.

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Education EdTech Chegg Technology 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2020

Online tests have also meant a booming business for companies that sell homework and test answers, including Chegg and Course Hero. a month, Chegg is offering a new service that provides fast answers to math problems submitted by smartphone camera, step-by-step solution included.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

updated (Scholastic and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt are examples) or even sold their legacy businesses (Pearson) in order to refocus their businesses. Investment firms certainly track the technology sector, and some track the education sector , but there is no established benchmark for edtech companies. Our Basket of Edtech Stocks: 2U.

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EdTech Pearson Chegg Company 60

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2016

For example, if you like taking notes with the stylus, set the finger up to erase. Here’s an example I created: Brainscape. Website Review: Chegg. That couldn’t be easier. Lines are thicker or thinner depending upon how hard you push the stylus onto the canvas. Educational Apps.

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Brainscape

JUNE 9, 2022

For example: online courses and e-textbook providers that are more of an instructional curriculum, but that have built spaced repetition into things like multiple-choice quizzes at the end of chapters, where incorrect answers are more likely to come up frequently until the user answers correctly.

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E-rate Study Chegg Software 52

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2022

For example: The company recently launched new courseware for U.S. But there’s another problem: Course Hero’s domain—like other companies such as Chegg—is blocked by the content filtering of some districts. Whether that 3 percent is officially through an institution is unknown, according to Lumen. History II.

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OER Course Chegg Company 174

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A recent example is publishing giant Pearson’s dive into the world of textbook subscriptions in hopes of making itself more appealing to students shopping around for the best deal. Niraj Kaji, Akademos CEO, predicts more universities will follow Weaver and his institution’s example.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

So, for example, a lot of teachers love to use Quizlet, which is a great company — they build these really complicated quizzes, really interesting stuff, and you can just take those and bring them right into the Versal course. You actually have your students pay to go to your program, for example. Liberal arts is OK. Stephens: Yeah.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2017

I’d cite a few examples of this approach but, as you can imagine, startups who take this approach rarely get off the ground and those who do don’t last long. Chegg (or Amazon for that matter)? Parent communications platforms. There are already several well-capitalized startups (including. Yet another student book exchange.

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EdTech LMS Facebook Chegg 92

Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2019

What’s an example where the analogy was helpful—and where it was not? So you can look at Chegg, which we’re an investor in, which has a $5.5 GSV Labs is one example. It takes research, information, leadership, capital, examples of success. When you’re navigating something new, having an analogy to point to is helpful.

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Industry EdTech Company Chegg 84

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

I missed this news back in February: Chegg acquired RefMe. Khan Academy, for example, had $27.9 Impero Software has been acquired by Investment Technology Partners which paid $36.3 Barnes & Noble Education has acquired Student Brands , which includes the Cram and StudyMode homework help sites.

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Hack Education

JULY 6, 2018

Look at former Harvard President Drew Faust , for example! Chegg has acquired the flashcard app StudyBlue for $20.8 .” Labor and Management. What can you do with a history degree? Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t make bucket-loads of money. The Business of Job Training. million total. million in cash.

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Education Pearson MOOC Chegg 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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