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’s use of earnings data investigated.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s data about distance education enrollments in the US in the research section below. Edsurge reports that Weld North Education will still be run by former Kaplan exec Jonathan Grayer.

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” Via Gamasutra : “Parents take Subway Surfers devs to court over alleged misuse of kids’ data.” “ Purdue-Kaplan online university one step closer to reality,” the Journal & Courier reports. ” A master of science in data journalism from Columbia University’s School of Journalism.

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A New York district court awarded Elsevier US$15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub , the Library of Genesis (LibGen) project and related sites.” Saxberg had previously been the Chief Learning Officer at Kaplan (and Edsurge, when covering the news , fails to disclose its financial ties to Kaplan ).

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That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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.” “ Torn Apart / Separados ” – “A rapidly deployed critical data & visualization intervention in the USA’s 2018 ‘Zero Tolerance Policy’ for asylum seekers at the US Ports of Entry and the humanitarian crisis that has followed.” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Via Inside Higher Ed : “A pending Connecticut law will now mandate that the University of Connecticut and the state’s four other public universities publicly release data on which transfer student credits they accept and which they reject.” ” Via Education Dive : “The Purdue-Kaplan Earthquake.”

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Senators Introduce Bill to Keep Government Research Data Publicly Available (Preserving Data in Government Act).” 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. Via Infodocket : “Two U.S. Or something else?