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Pearson Signals Major Shift From Print by Making All Textbook Updates ‘Digital First’

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These changes usually incorporate new findings in a field of study, or reflect recent events. And focusing on digital makes the secondary textbook market even less attractive, since students have to buy access directly from Pearson to get course materials. But each new edition comes with a higher sticker price.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Buy them a beer when you see them at an event and thank them for covering the LMS industry so I don’t have to. Investors, it appears, do still expect quite a lot of growth in the market, as learning management systems were among the types of companies raising the most venture capital this year. Subscribe to their blog.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The NAACP endorses OER. Via KIRO7 : “Charges filed after University of Washington shooting outside Milo Yiannopoulos event.” More in the courts section above on the charges filed against a person who shot a protestor at a Milo Yiannopoulos event at the University of Washington early this year. ” Oh.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. It’s now become a way in which educational events, organizations, and institutions dole out funding for projects. And I’d never gotten my Ph.D. The TED Talk.

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