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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

Edsurge

Some of the software that CMU plans to release as open source were already free to download, but until now the source code was not made available. But Kenneth R. Previous projects similar to what Carnegie Mellon is attempting have struggled to take off.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

While some license holders leased their spectrum in the 1980s and ’90s, the market for it remained somewhat sluggish until 2004, when the FCC changed the permitted use for that part of the spectrum from television to internet and renamed it EBS. Photo: Andrew Franco.