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” The New York Times on “ mastery based learning ” : “A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry.” Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2. ” The Chronicle of Higher Education on Elsevier “becoming a data company.” ” Holy s**t.

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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Salesforce , the world’s largest customer relationship management platform, has announced a new classroom-ready training scheme called Trailhead for Students.” “ Is Homework Compatible With Personalized Learning? ” asks The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalized learning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” ” Via Infodocket : “ Louisiana State University is Suing Elsevier For Breach of Contract.”

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The AP on the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow : “Education regulators are reviewing a whistleblower’s claim that Ohio ’s then- largest online charter school intentionally inflated attendance figures tied to its state funding using software it purchased after previous allegations of attendance inflation.”

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” “ Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen ,” says TorrentFreak. He’s referring to “ personalized learning ,” but might as well be any buzzword when you frame the headline that way, bud.). Via The New York Times : “How Google Took Over the Classroom.”

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The New York Times on The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow , an online charter school: “Online School Enriches Affiliated Companies if Not Its Students.” Elsevier has acquired SSRN , an online open access repository. The company, which provides public radio and related instructional materials to classrooms, has raised $1.55

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. “ inBloom ’s collapse undermined personalized learning and data standards efforts,” says danah boyd. (I’m Via Education Week : “ Personalized Learning and the ‘ Internet of Things :’ Q&A.” Elsevier has acquired Plum Analytics. So there you go.). million total.