Learning Ecosystems

The Chegg situation is worse than you think — from eliterate.us by Michael Feldstein

Excerpts:

Forbes just ran with an article entitled “This $12 Billion Company Is Getting Rich Off Students Cheating Their Way Through Covid“.

Ouch.

[Per Michael] To sum up:

• Publishers, after selling expensive textbooks to students, sold the answers to the homework questions in those expensive books to Chegg.
• Chegg sells the answers to the questions to the students, who often use them to cheat.
• To combat this problem, universities pay for proctoring software, which is apparently more effective at preventing students from going to the bathroom than it is at preventing cheating.
• To add insult to all of this injury, “to chegg” is now apparently a verb in the English language. We will all have to live with that linguistic violence.

Addendum on 2/9/21:

• Students cheat with online learning service, professors hope to identify users — from dailyemerald.com by Claire Warner