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With No Study Buddies, More College Students Turn to Cheating

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Joseph Ching, a junior at Purdue University, says many of his professors have warned students not to use sites like Chegg, where students are posting homework and quiz questions and getting answers from tutors. I reached out to Chegg, and sure enough, business there is booming. Students pay for a subscription of $14.99

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

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A recent Educause study found that 63 percent of colleges and universities in the U.S. 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.”

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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 The company is part of what has become a big business in providing study help to college students for a fee.

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Course Hero Adds $70 Million to Series B Fundraise

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Founded in 2006, Course Hero is already well known among college students, millions of whom use it to get study materials, share class notes and ask tutors questions. 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.

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The Post-Pandemic Outlook for Edtech

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Everyone’s had their kids at home studying,” he explains. 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. Many of the investors are new to the industry, Brothers notes. Coronavirus really changed that.

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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. 00:08:08 Speaker 2 Yeah. 00:08:09 Speaker 2 Ah. 00:08:09 Speaker 2 Cheating.