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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Not sure why these are the four, but there you go: Udemy , Lynda , Coursera , and Skillshare. 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. ” ACT has invested $10.5

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Communications Experts Criticize Elsevier - Florida Pilot.” Via Edsurge : “Three Rookie Mistakes That Edtech Entrepreneurs Make.” Udemy, which offers a marketplace for online classes, has raised $173 million total. Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech).