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05/13/21
In a recent survey, nearly three-quarters of students 73 percent said they would prefer to take some of their courses fully online post-pandemic. However, only half of faculty (53 percent) felt the same about teaching online. The fourth and final installment of Cengage s Digital Learning Pulse Survey, conducted by Bay View Analytics on behalf of the Online Learning Consortium, WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies, University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) and Canadian Digital Learning Research Association, polled 1,469 students and 1,286 faculty and administrators across 856 United States institutions about how higher education is changing in the wake of COVID-19.
Sixty-eight percent of students were also in favor of some combination of in-person and online courses. On the faculty side, 57 percent said they would prefer teaching hybrid courses post-pandemic slightly more than those who preferred teaching fully online.
May 10, 2021 | EDSCOOP
StuDocu, a platform where users upload their college notes and study guides, raised $50 million in its latest round of funding from the venture capital firm Partech, the company announced Monday.
Its users include 15 million students from 2,000 universities internationally, according to a press release. The platform is accessible on mobile and desktop and includes a rating system. Documents are also grouped by course, and there’s a search function within each university. Customers, according to the company’s website, include Arizona State University, New York University and Cornell.
Student-created StuDocu tools grew in popularity over the pandemic, doubling monthly active users during 2020, and will use the money to continue expanding its global reach, according to the press release. The platform also expanded into high schools during the pandemic.