Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
TAO is built based on QTI (short for “Question and Test Interoperability”), a data standard that enables assessment content and data to work across different testing platforms, item banks, delivery systems and reporting tools. The company also has contracts with ministries of education in Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, Portugal and the U.K.
Edsurge
MAY 23, 2019
And of course there are other vendors, like Elsevier and Wiley (like Jones Soda and RC) and openly-licensed resources known as OER, or open education resources (which are something like a Sodastream homebrew). In the new model, students usually pay a per-course fee that covers digital texts and homework systems.
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Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
Via Mother Jones : “How the Justice Department Is Trying to Dismantle Georgia ’s Segregated Special-Education System.” Via the EFF : “Stupid Patent of the Month: Elsevier Patents Online Peer Review.” Shawn Graham responds to this patent on peer review by patenting Elsevier.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 14, 2018
A glimpse : “In China ’s Silicon Valley, Edtech Starts at the ‘MOOC Times Building’ ” Via Class Central : “By The Numbers: MOOCs in 2018.” With new Chinese investor/partners, it’s going to be interesting to watch how Edsurge’s storytelling changes.
Hack Education
JUNE 23, 2017
Via Inside Higher Ed : “The British government releases the results … of its new three-tiered rating system of teaching quality at universities.” 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.”
Hack Education
OCTOBER 6, 2017
Via Politico : “The Kansas Supreme Court rejected the state’s school funding system in a ruling issued Monday that found it runs afoul of the state’s constitution by failing to adequately and equitably fund its school districts.” .” Via The Washington Post : “ D.C. ” Education in the Courts.
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
of Wisconsin System President Reprimands La Crosse Chancellor for Bringing Porn Star to Campus.” “Computer science students at the University of California, Berkeley , are frustrated with a malfunctioning autograding system,” says Inside Higher Ed. RELX is the former weapons dealer known as Reed Elsevier.
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