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

Edsurge

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). Of course, there are big differences between textbooks and fizzy drinks.

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(The Very Last) Hack Education Weekly News

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” “ University of California System is playing hardball with Elsevier in negotiations that could transform the way it pays to read and publish research,” says Inside Higher Ed. Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ Digital Tools Are Everywhere – and Largely Unused – in Many Schools, New Analysis Shows.”

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An Idea for the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative

Iterating Toward Openness

The overwhelming majority of research on cancer is owned by publishers of academic journals like Elsevier and Springer. What do you suppose a rigorous economic analysis would reveal the value of a 20, 30, or 50-year-old article about cancer to be? Would publishers press the issue?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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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. ” Education in the Courts. Last week , the CFPB announced the bank would have to pay $4 million to settle a probe into Wells Fargo student loan practices.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

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. Stanford University’s Larry Cuban continues his analysis of behavioral management tool ClassDojo.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Infodocket : “ Louisiana State University is Suing Elsevier For Breach of Contract.” ” I’m considered an “expert” here (among others) featured in IHE with thoughts and questions and analysis on the “ Purdue - Kaplan marriage.”

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I don’t recall if I talked about Elsevier when I wrote about platforms as part of my 2017 review. Anyway, here’s Richard Smith on Elsevier and “A Big Brother future for science publishing.” That’s certainly it’s aspiration. ” Henry Jenkins interviews Justin Reich on “ ed tech and equity.”