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Next Week - The Library 2.0 "Emerging Technology" Mini-Conference - All Keynotes and Sessions Posted!

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We invite all library professionals, employers, LIS students, and educators to register now to participate in this event. This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded. network to be kept updated on this and future events. Her forthcoming book on Drones in Libraries will be available in July 2020 (Elsevier).

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As a prelude to the event, the organisers have asked me to write a short blog post which takes the form of my responses to four questions: Q1. The big four publishers - Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor and Francis and Springer - are making huge profits worldwide from the goodwill of academics. I plan to discuss our possible responses to this.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The only other media attending the event would be a national crew from ABC.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. .” RELX is the former weapons dealer known as Reed Elsevier.

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Politico : Western Governors University , “the nation’s leading provider of competency-based educatio n – which the Education Department’s independent watchdog last month said violated federal student aid rules – is expanding into North Carolina.”

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” Via Infodocket : “ Louisiana State University is Suing Elsevier For Breach of Contract.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. The Business of Job Training.

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Here’s Edsurge’s take on the AEI event. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the job training section below. .” I don’t recall if I talked about Elsevier when I wrote about platforms as part of my 2017 review. “The U.S.

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” ” Research finds there’s a " global achievement gap in MOOCs. Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.”