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Special Report

Close-Up on Courseware

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Sam Green for The Chronicle

The risk to students when instructors adopt one-stop learning platforms.

A blue and green-hued illustration of a professor at this desk. His head is a computer screen displaying symbols of learning. Around him are more traditional tools of learning like books and a globe.
Outsourcing Instruction
Millions of Students a Year Are Required to Buy Courseware. Often, It Replaces the Professor.
By Taylor Swaak July 18, 2023
Full of features that can substitute for teaching and largely unregulated, the technology is ripe for misuse.
Blue and green-hued illustration of books behind bars. In the middle green books line up with green bars to form a $ symbol.
Hidden Costs of College
Courseware Can Be Integral to a Course. Why, Then, Are Students Footing the Bill for It?
By Taylor Swaak July 19, 2023
Advocates argue that learners shouldn’t have to pay extra for products so they can complete and submit their homework.
Blue and green-hued illustration depicting "web-crawlers" crawling out of a computer screen while scanning and collecting data.
Student Privacy
Bots Are Grabbing Students’ Personal Data When They Complete Assignments
By Taylor Swaak July 20, 2023
Using courseware has become unavoidable. So has giving up information.
A version of this package appeared in the Aug. 4, 2023 issue.