It’s hard to know what to think of Course Hero, a site that declares itself as a “social learning network” where you can “give and get” information. Conceived by students at Cornell, Course Hero ...

Welcome to this week's edition of "Transforming Teaching and Learning," a column that explores how colleges and professors are reimagining how they teach and how students learn. Please share your ...

Like any successful founder, Andrew Grauer had bright, long-term ambitions for Course Hero from the moment he launched it in 2006. He started the business to create a place where students could ask ...

Clicking onto their favorite courses at the end of May, educators found that they were getting redirected somewhere else. They were trying to prep summer courses by linking to the freely available, ...

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Before becoming a software engineer at Google, Sahil Gaba, 33, was an entirely self-taught computer engineer with a mechanical-engineering background. Many new programmers who start in Gaba's shoes ...