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I'm quite at home in this area of academia, and my thinking is shaped and informed by these disciplines, so I was delighted to be invited to speak. The big four publishers - Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor and Francis and Springer - are making huge profits worldwide from the goodwill of academics. I'm not the only one.

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Via The New York Times : “ Broadband Law Could Force Rural Residents Off Information Superhighway.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Humans, the Latest MOOC Feature.” Via the EFF : “Stupid Patent of the Month: Elsevier Patents Online Peer Review.”

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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” ” The New York Times on “ mastery based learning ” : “A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. .” ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. It was a nightmare.’”

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Just 22 schools with running water and basic supplies will start holding informal classes today in an attempt to kickstart recovery.” In the future, you might want to look for most MOOC-related news in the “business of job training” section below. ” Via The Washington Post : “ D.C.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Education Week : “ Students With Disabilities Sue ACT Over Release of Personal Information.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Google has updated its pseudo-LMS, Classroom. Elsevier has acquired Aries Systems. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The IRS data retrieval tool that let financial aid applicants automatically import income information into the FAFSA won’t be restored for the current aid cycle, said James Runcie, chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, in written testimony to Congress Wednesday.”

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