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” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. Via Mashable : “The e-waste nightmare lurking in your kid’s toy box.” RELX is the former weapons dealer known as Reed Elsevier. Such a small world. The Not-So-Hidden Curriculum.

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Wheeler supported e-Rate reform and “ net neutrality.” Campus Technology reports that “ Elsevier Debuts Metrics Tracking Journal Performance.” ” Meanwhile, “ Germany -wide consortium of research libraries announce boycott of Elsevier journals over open access,” according to BoingBoing.

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Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. The Wall Street Journal predicts “The End of Typing: The Next Billion Mobile Users Will Rely on Video and Voice.” ” The Chronicle of Higher Education on Elsevier “becoming a data company.”

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Via Inside Higher Ed : “At Saturday’s football game at Pennsylvania State University , the university played videos that honored the career of the late Joe Paterno on the 50th anniversary of when he became head football coach.” Via The Wall Street Journal : “ Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years.”

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WorldCat also features open source e-books, articles, and downloadable audiobooks and photos. ScienceDirect ScienceDirect is a platform by Elsevier that offers access to a huge collection of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters including open access materials.

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