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

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The biggest facilitator appears to be Chegg, which has become synonymous with cheating. A recent investigation by Forbes magazine called Chegg a “superspreader” of cheating; a majority of the 52 students it interviewed said they used it for that purpose. Gallant’s group has some advice. “If

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Chegg Ditches Ingram for FedEx and Eyes International Growth

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Back in 2014, more competition from Amazon had led the Santa Clara, Calif-based Chegg to a deal with book distributor Ingram Content Group. Ingram bought Chegg’s textbook inventory to sell and distribute, and the companies shared the revenues. The Ingram deal was framed as part of Chegg’s strategy to 100 percent digital revenue.

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Automated Proctoring Swept In During Pandemic. It’s Likely to Stick Around, Despite Concerns

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There is a lot of concern in higher ed about Chegg and Course Hero,” Urdan says, “which everyone acknowledges are cheating tools.” "We We often found out who the cheater was before Chegg got back to us.” We randomly put students into four groups,” says Tara Carpenter, a lecturer at UMBC who taught the course. “We

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This Edtech Critic Was Supposed to Become a Bridge Between Educators and Edtech. How Is It Going?

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But if they want to thrive, both groups might need to learn to meet each other’s gaze. Morris had been known as a vocal critic of edtech, and companies like Course Hero—as well as similar companies like 2U and Chegg—have been roundly criticized by educators for providing students with the tools they need to cheat.

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The Pandemic Is Changing How Colleges Offer Tutoring. Will Students Use It?

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During the past two years of the COVID-19 crisis, there has been a spike in student use of so-called homework help websites —including Chegg and Course Hero—which market themselves as providing study aids but which many professors see as designed to aid student cheating. I’ve got to devise a marketing plan for our unit,” he says.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Chegg Acquires Easy Solutions; Age of Learning Raises $150 Million

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The month of May kicked off with a significant number of deals in the ed-tech sector, including acquisitions by Chegg and ACT, Inc. based Chegg said in a statement. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Chegg Acquires Easy Solutions; Age of Learning Raises $150 Million appeared first on Market Brief. received cash infusions from investors.

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Codecademy, an Early (and Now Profitable) Pioneer of Coding Education, Raises $40M in New Funding

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Investors from these previous rounds include Flybridge Capital Partners, Index Ventures, Alexis Ohanian and Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group. “We Codecademy hired its first chief financial officer last November: former Chegg executive and general manager Adam Goldman. Chegg went public in 2013.

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