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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. “ Marvel Announces Science, Tech, and Math-Devoted Comic Book Covers,” Popular Science reports. Robots probably won’t take your jobs.

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” Via EdScoop : “ USC launches edtech research center focused on underrepresented youth.” “‘Eton for all’: will robot teachers mean everyone gets an elite education? “ Do Medical Schools Still Need Books? .” Grace University will close at the end of the school year.

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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. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Education in the Courts. ” More via The Chronicle of Higher Education. .”

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But I’m putting that project on pause while I write my book. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Tutoring company Topica Edtech Group has raised $50 million from Northstar Group. RELX is the former weapons dealer known as Reed Elsevier. National) Education Politics. The company has raised $16.6

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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.” Via Campus Technology : “ McGraw-Hill Education Launches Textbook and E-Book Rental Program.”

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Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Elsevier on “The Augmented Researcher: What Does 2018 Hold for AI in Publishing ?” EdTech Strategies’ Doug Levin has released a new study on the many security and privacy issues with school (and school district and department of education) websites.

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Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Elsevier has acquired bepress. As The Scholarly Kitchen’s Roger Schonfeld writes, “Elsevier is now a major if not the foremost single player in the institutional repository landscape. ” (An excerpt from Daniel Willingham’s new book.). ” ACT has invested $10.5