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Chegg and Coursera Partnership Gives Students Free Access to Expensive Textbooks on a MOOC Budget
Johan Larsson via Compfight Win-win-win? Students get free course materials to supplement their MOOCs, Chegg gets data on student usage of their ebooks, while Coursera expands resources for students. From the article: “Because the free versions of the books will be read through an e-reader, we’ll also get information about usage,” he said. “How students [...]
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