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.” Carl Straumsheim writes that “One of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ’s most popular massive open online courses is adding a feature not seen in any of its other humanities MOOCs: instructors grading essays.” ” Of course, you have to pay $300 for this “features.”

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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. “Mark Zuckerberg just unveiled Facebook ’s new mission statement,” says The Verge.

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” Speaking of Peter Thiel, “ Mark Zuckerberg : Facebook fake news didn’t sway election,” USA Today reports from the Techonomy conference. Inside Higher Ed profiles homework help company Course Hero. ” “ Facebook ’s ‘Free’ Internet Will Harm Low-Income Consumers,” says Wired.

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” Via EdScoop : “ USC launches edtech research center focused on underrepresented youth.” ” This, from Edsurge , is pretty awful: “Why Edtech Executives Are Keeping a Close Eye on Preschool Demographics.” Via Edsurge : “NYC Keeps Its Edtech Accelerator Revving With New Funders and Markets.”

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” Via Techcrunch : “ Amazon opens its internal machine learning courses to all for free.” The stories out of Facebook just keep getting worse. I mean, I’m just glad that no one from Facebook is involved in education, ed-tech, ed reform, or education journalism. What are these jobs? million total.

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Via The Daily Beast : “ Palmer Luckey : The Facebook Near-Billionaire Secretly Funding Trump’s Meme Machine.” Well, one thing’s for certain: between this and Peter Thiel on its board, Facebook is well-positioned for a Trump presidency. ” Well, as long as ed-tech vendors benefit, it must be grand.

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” Via Infodocket : “ Louisiana State University is Suing Elsevier For Breach of Contract.” “Is there an elegant way to administer exams in online courses ?” Via Gizmodo : “ Facebook Will Add 3,000 More People to Watch Murders and Suicides.” ” The test in question: the TOEFL.

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