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Via the EFF : “Stupid Patent of the Month: Elsevier Patents Online Peer Review.” Shawn Graham responds to this patent on peer review by patenting Elsevier. “ Marvel Announces Science, Tech, and Math-Devoted Comic Book Covers,” Popular Science reports. Note: just the cover will be education-related.).

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“ Hail and Farewell to The Google Books Case ” by James Grimmelmann. “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” Elsevier has acquired SSRN , an online open access repository. These clauses prevent students from suing. Remember what I’ve said: watch the student loan space.).

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blog : “ Elsevier Collaborates with Hypothesis to Integrate Open Annotation.” Via Campus Technology : “ McGraw-Hill Education Launches Textbook and E-Book Rental Program.” The “ invisible ” “adaptive learning” company has raised $38.7 Via the Hypothes.is million total.

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Inside Higher Ed reports that “ National University is working to create a personalized education platform that combines three of the buzziest innovations in higher education – adaptive learning, competency-based learning and predictive analytics for student retention.” Elsevier has acquired bepress.

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They returned a syllabus that was all-white in composition – not just in that the primary authors of the books selected contained no people of color but the books themselves largely avoided America's colonial-settler, chattel-slavery, and racist-imperial history.” Elsevier has acquired Hivebench. weeks in 2015.”