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ACT’s Latest Act: Investing in an Open-Source Assessment Startup

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Its latest act: making a strategic investment in Open Assessment Technologies (OAT), a San Francisco-based startup that offers open-source tools for building and delivering digital tests. Besides just being an assessment company, we’re also becoming a learning and navigation company,” Roorda tells EdSurge in an interview.

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(The Very Last) Hack Education Weekly News

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A glimpse : “In China ’s Silicon Valley, Edtech Starts at the ‘MOOC Times Building’ ” Via Class Central : “By The Numbers: MOOCs in 2018.” Several “rethinking assessment” stories, sponsored by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, in Edsurge this week. ” Testing.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “Two assessment companies – Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp. The framework demands that schools be assessed “according to their performance on student satisfaction, retention and graduate employment, as well as through institutional submissions.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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A new project from the Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel : “Reimagining College Access: Performance Assessments From K–12 Through Higher Education.” I don’t recall if I talked about Elsevier when I wrote about platforms as part of my 2017 review. ” The company: Questar Assessment, Inc.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Meanwhile on Campus… Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Florida State Cancels Bundled Journal Deal With Elsevier.” Via EdScoop : “‘Deliberate cyberattack ’ delays online assessments in five states.” Edtech Companies?” Adam Croom on “ Annotating EdTech Terms of Service.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “ Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen ,” says TorrentFreak. ” That’s the Collegiate Learning Assessment exam (a.k.a. “​ Intel Hits Pause on Edtech Accelerator,” says Edsurge. ” Education in the Courts. More legal stories in the sports section below.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Edsurge : “ Jefferson Education Accelerator Winds Down, Rebrands to Focus on Edtech Reviews and Procurement.” blog : “ Elsevier Collaborates with Hypothesis to Integrate Open Annotation.” More via Inside Higher Ed. ” More via EdWeek’s Market Brief. Because god forbid you actually ask them.