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Cheating on Chegg? Maybe Not on Its Tutoring Platform

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That’s an example of a request that can be found on online tutoring services like Chegg, as shared by a senior data scientist at the company, Sanghamitra Deb. Yet this is the kind of “help” that Chegg’s tutoring service can sometimes be used for. But Chegg doesn’t take action against the person making the request.

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Some Professors Fight Study-Help Sites. Other Professors Now Use Them.

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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 And he said the company’s policies mean that they have to be the ones to make sure the site isn’t being abused.

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Course Hero Adds $70 Million to Series B Fundraise

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Many of its services are similar to those offered by Chegg, a publicly traded education company that has also seen a meteoric growth in usage and revenue since the pandemic hit. Company officials say it has policies and processes in place to remove offending material (though the onus still falls largely on faculty to report them).

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The Post-Pandemic Outlook for Edtech

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Case in point: Online course provider Coursera reported more than 13 million new registered users since mid-March, a 535 percent increase from the same period last year. College students are turning to digital tutoring platforms like Chegg and online course providers like Coursera, both of which have performed well over the last few months.

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Acquisition Autopsy: Details—and Questions—Behind MissionU’s $4M Sale to WeWork

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Fast Company, which broke the story , reported that the acquisition was an all-stock deal. How did it start and end so quickly? The details behind the deal offer clues as to why reactions have been tepid. What were the terms of the deal? billion round, led by Softbank, which valued the office-sharing startup at $20 billion in August 2017.

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Move over 401(k)s — this new perk is helping millennials pay off college loans

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Its clients include Fidelity and Chegg. A Harvard University study found that 42 percent of millennials have college debt, which the nonpartisan foundation New America reports has climbed 20 percent in just four years. Another company, Gradifi, which launched last year, offers a similar deal. Read more about higher education.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” More on the policy change via IHE. “Researchers say removal of an IRS tool for financial aid applicants may have slowed FAFSA submissions, while college aid groups warn that affected students could already be losing out on aid,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals.