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

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Now something similar may be happening with textbooks, as publishing giants start to broker campuswide deals with colleges that give students unlimited access to a publisher’s digital textbooks at cut-rate prices. There’s a surprising amount of momentum behind it,” said Phil Hill, a longtime edtech consultant.

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A glimpse : “In China ’s Silicon Valley, Edtech Starts at the ‘MOOC Times Building’ ” Via Class Central : “By The Numbers: MOOCs in 2018.” Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Says Bug Opened Access to Private Photos.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Racist Rant Roils Columbia.”

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The lawsuit contends that the publisher is “ predatory ” because it charges scholars to have their work published in open-access journals. ” Among its cargo: a Facebook / Internet.org satellite that was supposed to provide Internet access Facebook to African countries. Meanwhile on Campus.

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Via Nature : “One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier , won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. Education in the Courts. ” More via The Chronicle of Higher Education. Among those cringeworthy ideas: the LMS.

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” Via EdScoop : “ USC launches edtech research center focused on underrepresented youth.” Let’s not worry that there are many people who do not have access to electricity, let alone Internet, let alone digital devices.). Via Edsurge : “NYC Keeps Its Edtech Accelerator Revving With New Funders and Markets.”

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Trump’s education platform promises to “make post-secondary options more affordable and accessible through technology enriched delivery models.” Via Edsurge : “ New Markets Venture Partners Adds $30 Million, Former Gates Foundation Executive to Edtech Fund.” Very unfair! — Donald J. Is that possible?

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Tutoring company Topica Edtech Group has raised $50 million from Northstar Group. RELX is the former weapons dealer known as Reed Elsevier. ” Another remembrance via NPR : “‘Harold Believed In Me’: Remembering A College Access Advocate And NYC Schools Leader.” The company has raised $16.6