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” Via Infodocket : “ Louisiana State University is Suing Elsevier For Breach of Contract.” ” Via Edsurge : “Why Moodle ’s Mastermind, Martin Dougiamas, Still Believes in Edtech After Two Decades.” Via The Independent : “ Facebook research targeted insecure youth, leaked documents show.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “As Republicans seek support for their controversial legislation to update the Higher Education Act , a Pentagon document gives ammo to critics over the bill’s plan to end Public Service Loan Forgiveness.” Edtech Companies?” Adam Croom on “ Annotating EdTech Terms of Service.”

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Via the Indianapolis Business Journal : “Legal skirmishes break out over ITT documents, data.” Elsevier has acquired bepress. As The Scholarly Kitchen’s Roger Schonfeld writes, “Elsevier is now a major if not the foremost single player in the institutional repository landscape. ” Oh good grief.

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” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. Elsevier has acquired Hivebench. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “With two executive orders, Gov. Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech).