Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies). If so, what are they?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless. They haven’t.).

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “British Officials, Pearson Probe Effort to Leak Test Content.” Speaking of loans, Google will ban ads for payday loans. Hey, we could ask Pearson how much money it made off of those taking the GED last year to find out.). ” asks Edsurge. It's religion.

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Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

” Via The Verge : “ Amazon is launching a $23 subscription book box for kids.” Edwin has received an undisclosed amount of investment from Google for its tutoring app. Via Campus Technology : “When Learning Analytics Violate Student Privacy.” Digital training company QuizRR has raised $1.3

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

And speaking of copyrighting a language of a warlike people, the Oracle v Google case had its closing arguments this week. On Thursday, the judge gave Google the victory , ruling that the company’s use of the Java API fell under fair use provisions. ” (That giant: Pearson , of course.). MOOCs for credit !

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Fascinating how affluent parents in the shadow of Google and Apple HQs respond to ed-tech, no?). Via Techcrunch : “ Nickelodeon gets into e-books with new reading app for kids, Nick Jr. ” “ Google’s Toontastic storytelling app for kids goes 3D,” says Techcrunch. ” The program: Teach to One.

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

They returned a syllabus that was all-white in composition – not just in that the primary authors of the books selected contained no people of color but the books themselves largely avoided America's colonial-settler, chattel-slavery, and racist-imperial history.” ” Will for-profit higher ed be an election issue? .”

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