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Colleges Are Striking Bulk Deals With Textbook Publishers. Critics Say There Are Many Downsides.

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And of course there are other vendors, like Elsevier and Wiley (like Jones Soda and RC) and openly-licensed resources known as OER, or open education resources (which are something like a Sodastream homebrew). A 2015 regulation by the U.S. It kept going on and on” Hardee said resolving the issue took time away from his studies.

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” It planned to do so back in 2015.) Elsevier has acquired Plum Analytics. ” The study was conducted by Blackboard and researchers by the University of Michigan. .”

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Elsevier has acquired bepress. As The Scholarly Kitchen’s Roger Schonfeld writes, “Elsevier is now a major if not the foremost single player in the institutional repository landscape. A new study of New York City schools says no – they help.” ” ACT has invested $10.5

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The governor, a Republican elected in 2015, announced on Friday that he had disbanded the university’s current 20-member Board of Trustees. From Course Report : “the 2016 Coding Bootcamp Market Size Study.” weeks in 2015.” Elsevier has acquired Hivebench. Presidential Campaign Politics.

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” More on this study in the research section below. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Communications Experts Criticize Elsevier - Florida Pilot.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “More than half of intercollegiate and recreational athletes in a new study say they have pressured women into having sex.”

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Heather Hiles , formerly the CEO of portfolio company Pathbrite (which was sold to Cengage Learning in 2015) will be the new “ deputy director of postsecondary success ” at the Gates Foundation. Campus Technology reports that “ Elsevier Debuts Metrics Tracking Journal Performance.” Both/and, I guess.