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Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. Via the Coursera blog : “What’s Next in Employee Learning: Virtual Reality.” ” The Chronicle of Higher Education on Elsevier “becoming a data company.” Post, Sources Say.”

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Via Edsurge : “Why the FCC ’s E-rate Makes Funding High-Speed Internet a Slow Crawl.” “The Saga of Ohio ’s Embattled E-School Is Coming to an End,” writes Education Week’s Ben Herold. Google blogs ; tech publications help market the news. Elsevier has acquired Aries Systems.

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” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. She wrote a blog post on Medium. Via Mashable : “The e-waste nightmare lurking in your kid’s toy box.” RELX is the former weapons dealer known as Reed Elsevier. Such a small world.

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More via a Department of Ed blog post on what it’s doing to support these students. “ Elsevier Wants CloudFlare to Expose Pirate Sites,” TorrentFreak reports. ” “ 2016 E-Rate Trends.” The Department of Education has created a website for students from closed for-profits. Heckuva job.

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Why is the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Bror Saxberg posting on the Department of Education ’s Medium blog ? For your “yes, Microsoft is still horrible files,” this from The Washington Post : “ E-waste recycler Eric Lundgren loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve 15-month prison term.”

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It’s not really an “exclusive” when you re-write a Google blog post , but oh well. In other news culled from the Google blog: “ Introducing Spaces , a tool for small group sharing.” Elsevier has acquired SSRN , an online open access repository. .” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. From the Coursera blog : “Coursera pilots a new course format.” ” Grit ™ – a blog post about a trademarked grit product by Pearson , of course.