“We were trying to be everything for all students in a world before the AI,” says the CEO of Chegg, Nathan Schultz.
Several generative AI platforms, including chatgpt, have free plans. Chegg hopes to reach students who will pay $ 19.99 per month for tools that foster long -term use and the establishment of objectives.
“If you think about the world of fitness, those applications and services tend to be much more guides to bring you to your goal,” says Schultz. “They are giving you,” every week we are going to do this many miles or this many walks or this work “, and that is how we have the legs of our service.”
Chegg is also wrapping AI models on its platform. A new feature shows panels from side to side with Chegg’s answer to a question next to the answers of other platforms, including Chatgpt, Google Gemini and Claude.
Macmillan Learning sells textbooks and electronic books, and sacrifices questionnaires and study guides. Like Chegg, he has incorporated an AI tool in the plan paid and began implementing it at the end of last year.
Macmillan’s tool did not give students direct answers; Instead, guide the solution through open questions that expose defective thinking (also known as the Socratic Method).
“Socraticax supports them to have that learning experience they can use … when they have to do it on the exam,” says Tim Flem, Macmillan Learning Product Director.
Flem states that Macmillan’s tutor is more precise than AI chatbots, since it is based on the company’s textbooks. The platform also reduces “content change,” he says.
“If you are changing between that tab and that tab, note how you are always a child or like it,” expects a minute, what did he say here? “” Then, our AI tutor is right next to the problem in which the student is working. “
How students are adapting
Some students are mixing and combining the AI and traditional tools. Bryan Wheatley combined the chatgpt with Tremlet and Sock (another AI tool) to study. Recent Graduate of the University of Prairie View A & M in Texas, initially approached Chatgpt with restlessness.
“Something that is really adaptive is a crazy child in a sense,” he says he uses it to describe the trials and other tasks. The chatgpt is correctly approximately half of the time, and had to make many cross references.
It was one of the 66% of students in bachelor’s, mastery and doctorate programs using chatgpt regularly, according to July 2024 research from The Digital Education Council.
The survey also found that approximately 50% of the students believed that it depended too much on AI negatively affect their academic performance.
Sally Simpson is trying to keep the line. The student of the University of Georgetown, who works in a PH.D. In German literature, it does not use generative. In his undergraduate days, he used websites such as Alhats and Sparknotes to reinforce the information he processed.
Now, see that university students use generative to complete the tasks and summary work bodies that did not read. “People’s education covers,” she says. “I think it is an important ability to read an article, read a text, and not only be able to summarize it, but to think about it.”
Donetrell Shoulders, a senior who studies social at Kentucky State University, was an avid user of the question and still uses it to study for the tests. With maybe, you have to look for answers. The generative AI does not provide a great challenge, he says.
“You are simply putting something on a computer, having to write it, and just like,” here are, “he says.” Are you going to remember it after you have written it? You are not. “
How teachers are adapting
Amy Lawyer, president of the Equine Administration Department of the Business School of the University of Louisville, says that some students still use online study guides such as Chegg and Sparknotes. “The students are at a point where they will use aviable resources for them,” she says.
Or those resources, Chatgpt has had the most significant impact on its class. She uses it to edit and encourage her students to do the same. However, to stop them with plagiarists or in excess of chatbots of AI, it is now emitting more tasks that must be written or completed in class.
Ayelet Fishbach, Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Sciences at the Booth Business School of the University of Chicago, says that students will always find shortcuts, regardless of how technology evolves. “It has not invented recent cheat,” she says.
