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Top EdSurge Higher Education Stories of 2021

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A Popular Study Found That Taking Notes By Hand Is Better Than By Laptop. More Students Are Using Chegg to Cheat. Young This analysis of a major MOOC provider proved prescient; the nonprofit was purchased later in the year. By Jeffrey R. Young Learning research doesn’t always replicate in subsequent trials. By Jeffrey R. By Jeffrey R.

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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo on EdTech

Smartphones, tablets, and laptops had become a permanent requirement along with using technology in the classrooms by this time. Similarly, Pearson has made some of its textbooks available for rent through Chegg. A subscription model is any day more affordable than buying new textbooks.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. One Laptop Per Child. WTF is Unizin ?!

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

From The Express Tribune in Pakistan : “Around 500,000 laptops are likely to be distributed among talented and deserving students by the year 2020, according to Prime Minister Youth Programme Chairwoman Leila Khan.” Via Edsurge : “ Cheating on Chegg ? ” (State and Local) Education Politics. .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via the press release : “ Cengage , McGraw-Hill Education , and Pearson have joined forces with Ingram and Chegg , Inc. School district boasts it’s giving laptops to migrant students. Via Techcrunch : “ Duolingo brings Tinycards to the web.” ” You know what’s actually a growing problem? .”