Edsurge
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
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. We can’t go to the library. Because we are at home.
Edsurge
APRIL 14, 2022
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.
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Edsurge
MARCH 5, 2020
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.”
Edsurge
MAY 3, 2019
The announced merger this week between two of the world’s largest textbook publishers—McGraw-Hill and Cengage—could mean more students end up buying subscriptions to digital courseware libraries each semester, rather than making a trip to a bookstore. With digital access codes, such sharing wouldn’t be possible, she said.
Edsurge
APRIL 26, 2019
In a 2018 survey of college students, the trade publication Library Journal found that 75 percent say that reading print books is easier than e-books. But while the tide may be tipping in digital’s favor, it may be premature to say that the print textbook is obsolete.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
The company also offers an online library of self-paced courses that individuals can access for $25 per month or $200 a year. A sizable portion of CreatorUp’s clients come from the education industry, including Cengage and Chegg, as well as community colleges and universities.
Edsurge
JULY 30, 2018
The most recent of these, the writing feedback assistant WriteLab, was acquired by Chegg , a publicly-traded education company, for $15 million. Curriculet, which offered a digital library of reading materials and assessments, briefly closed shop before it was acquired by the nonprofit Waterford Institute. WriteLab (Chegg).
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