{"id":74068,"date":"2021-02-07T11:20:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T16:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=74068"},"modified":"2021-02-09T13:26:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T18:26:58","slug":"the-chegg-situation-is-worse-than-you-think-feldstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/02\/07\/the-chegg-situation-is-worse-than-you-think-feldstein\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chegg situation is worse than you think [Feldstein]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eliterate.us\/the-chegg-situation-is-worse-than-you-think\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Chegg situation is worse than you think<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from eliterate.us by Michael Feldstein<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Forbes just ran with an article entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/susanadams\/2021\/01\/28\/this-12-billion-company-is-getting-rich-off-students-cheating-their-way-through-covid\/?sh=2d6e37b1363f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This $12 Billion Company Is Getting Rich Off Students Cheating Their Way Through Covid<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Ouch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/susanadams\/2021\/01\/28\/this-12-billion-company-is-getting-rich-off-students-cheating-their-way-through-covid\/?sh=2d6e37b1363f\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-74069 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ForbesArticleOnChegg-Jan2021.jpg\" alt=\"Chegg -- This $12 Billion Company Is Getting Rich Off Students Cheating Their Way Through Covid\" width=\"322\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ForbesArticleOnChegg-Jan2021.jpg 725w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ForbesArticleOnChegg-Jan2021-114x150.jpg 114w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Per Michael] To sum up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Publishers, after selling expensive textbooks to students, sold the answers to the homework questions in those expensive books to Chegg.<\/li>\n<li>Chegg sells the answers to the questions to the students, who often use them to cheat.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>To add insult to all of this injury, \u201cto chegg\u201d is now apparently a verb in the English language. We will all have to live with that linguistic violence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Addendum on 2\/9\/21:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyemerald.com\/news\/students-cheat-with-online-learning-service-professors-hope-to-identify-users\/article_552d56f4-5a31-11eb-98ae-879264ec0299.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Students cheat with online learning service, professors hope to identify users<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from dailyemerald.com by Claire Warner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chegg situation is worse than you think &#8212; from eliterate.us by Michael Feldstein Excerpts: Forbes just ran with an article entitled \u201cThis $12 Billion Company Is Getting Rich Off Students Cheating Their Way Through Covid\u201c. Ouch. [Per Michael] To sum up: Publishers, after selling expensive textbooks to students, sold the answers to the homework [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,387,61,115,302,260,159,286,501,347,403,71,36,3,419,119,64,79,353,173,393,66,50,206,321,214,367,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-business","category-business-side-of-he","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-digital-learning","category-e-publishing-related-items-epub-and-more","category-education-reform","category-ethics","category-faculty-staff","category-future-of-higher-education","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-it-in-he","category-liberal-arts","category-moralsvalues","category-pedagogy","category-student-teachingteacher-education","category-student-related","category-teaching-learning","category-trends","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vendors","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74068"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74082,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74068\/revisions\/74082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}