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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. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” More via The Chronicle of Higher Education. .” Where’s the outrage?”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The NAACP endorses OER. Purdue University is buying Kaplan University for a dollar. Me, I wrote about how far Kaplan Inc ’s reach is in education politics and products. ” From the press release : “ MOOCs and books initiative launched by Springer and Federica Weblearning.” Or something else?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. And digital distribution has replaced the role of a library as a central hub for obtaining the containers of such knowledge: books. They haven’t.).

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” Via The Conversation : “ Purdue-Kaplan deal blurs lines between for-profit and public colleges.” ” There’s more on the new Kaplan in the accreditation section below. ” asks Ron Srigley in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Edsurge on the business of OER. Via Edsurge : “?In