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More Students Are Using Chegg to Cheat. Is the Company Doing Enough to Stop It?

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The pandemic has dramatically altered teaching and learning, and one side effect seems to be a rise in cheating on quizzes and tests, aided by websites designed to help students study. The biggest facilitator appears to be Chegg, which has become synonymous with cheating. Gallant’s group has some advice. “If

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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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60+ Great Educational Websites

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Google Classroom, Khan Academy, Edmodo, Nearpod, Socrative, and the list goes on. There are literally tons of education websites and tools that you can use to enhance the quality of your teaching, learning, and professional development. You can now learn and practice a new language right from the comfort of your own couch.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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The prior year, my former chief Bill Gates headlined ASU GSV and received a standing ovation for championing technology’s power to transform teaching and learning. But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist. Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8 A small but mighty movement was building – and it needed time to grow.

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Duolingo IPO Shows Investors Think Edtech Is Still Growing.

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billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. And it turns out that online language learning is the fastest-growing market segment within the edtech industry. According to Urdan, language learning in the U.S.

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Mark Cuban, ECMC Lead $1.8M Round for Cluster to Develop Industrial Tech Talent

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Yet the likes of Google and Facebook sometimes overshadow sectors that have been—and remain—core to the American economy: industrial manufacturing. Other investors include education technology executives, like Penn Foster CEO Frank Britt and Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig, along with Zynga founder Mark Pincus and Flatiron Health CEO, Nat Turner.

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The Post-Pandemic Outlook for Edtech

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By mid-March, schools closed, sending students home to figure out how to keep learning from their kitchen tables. Never before have schools and colleges so urgently needed digital tools and services to facilitate remote learning—and been less able to afford them. The pandemic came early to Seattle. And customers seem grateful. “If

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