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1 after an investigation found chapter members repeatedly used racist , homophobic and anti-Semitic slurs , and then ostracized a black member who told them to stop, according to documents released by the university.” “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” ” Go, School Sports Team!

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Via the Indianapolis Business Journal : “Legal skirmishes break out over ITT documents, data.” 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.

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Via The New York Times : “ Corinthian Colleges , once one of the nation's largest for-profit education companies, engaged in apparently unlawful practices by paying its recruiters based on how many sales leads they converted into actual students, according to documents unsealed late last week.” Elsevier has acquired Hivebench.