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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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Adapting to the ChatGPT era in education

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Companies like Chegg have become multi-billion dollar platforms , which is mainly attributable to students seeking on-demand access to textbook and exam answers. The cheating-related concerns are warranted, but many appear to overlook a key point: students opting to cheat on homework, essays, or exams is not a new phenomenon.

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How Merger of Two Textbook Giants Could Impact Course Materials

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Both companies have also made deals with colleges to buy digital licenses to courseware in bulk, and then add that cost into a course fee or tuition. Called “Cengage Unlimited,” the program offers students access to every digital textbook and tool the company sells , across the many different tech platforms on which they run.

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Course Hero Adds $70 Million to Series B Fundraise

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A combination of “market volatility” and “increased demand for help with remote learning led to a great opportunity to set ourselves up to raise more capital,” Grauer adds. Capitalizing on increased usage seems to be the formula among edtech companies seeking new money this year. According to the EdSurge database, U.S.

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Duolingo IPO Shows Investors Think Edtech Is Still Growing.

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It’s got an effective mobile app that really changes the context in how people access language, a critical mass in consumer interest in learning applications and since the pandemic hit, it put edtech into the minds of investors as a real investable category,” says Trace Urdan, an edtech analyst and managing director at Tyton Partners.

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

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Soon someone from the company reached out to her to offer her full access to the site for free, which costs students either $39.95 One of the other giants of the study-aid world, Chegg, has also come under criticism by professors. Or, as she put it, “It gave me an idea that at least I was on track.” per month, or $119.40

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Predictions of Print Textbooks’ Death Remain Greatly Exaggerated

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Goldman, vice president of textbooks and e-books at Chegg, a student services provider that notably sold its print textbook inventory to Ingram in 2015, adoption of digital materials among students has been slower than he predicted. Even the most digitally connected educator will have access to a printer, Fields said.

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