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Cheating on Chegg? Maybe Not on Its Tutoring Platform

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Must have 7 resources.” 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. Deb said that while Chegg has a lot of content, it's not well structured for training machine learning algorithms.

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

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She saw it as a resource for her teaching. “I 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 I found some homework questions.

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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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Solutions like DreamBox can be a convening resource that will allow for structured planning and instructional delivery to be shared more effectively between home and school,” she says. Younger students are seeking assistance online from Khan Academy videos and digital resources like the books available through Epic Kids, which hit No.

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

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In addition to MissionU’s institutional investors, the company attracted executives and well-known names in the education industry including Chip Paucek (CEO of 2U), Dan Rosenzweig (CEO of Chegg) and Ted Dintersmith, a former investor-turned-education philanthropist. Why sell if there was still that much left in the bank?

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Look Who’s Talking—Michael Trucano from the Brookings Institution on AI in education

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Current areas of inquiry include artificial intelligence in education, the use of digital educational credentials and, more broadly, emerging edtech policies, initiatives, and institutions after the pandemic. I’m going to use Chegg PT to do this. 00:11:48 Speaker 2 I mean initially like this is going to change everything.

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

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College loan repayment benefits like that are available to only a small proportion of American workers — about 3 percent, according to the Society for Human Resource Management. Its clients include Fidelity and Chegg. But they’re growing fast. This is the future,” said Bruce Elliott, the society’s director.

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