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

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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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Hack Education Weekly News

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

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Department of Education is looking for nonprofit organizations to help support its #GoOpen campaign to nurture state and district take-up of ‘open’ educational resources ,” says EdWeek’s Market Brief. I don’t recall if I talked about Elsevier when I wrote about platforms as part of my 2017 review.