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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The New York Times : “ Broadband Law Could Force Rural Residents Off Information Superhighway.” 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. So unbelievably gross.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” The Chronicle of Higher Education on Elsevier “becoming a data company.” Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security. Khan Academy, for example, had $27.9 The Internet Archive’s Jason Scott on “Celebrating 30 Years of HyperCard.” I missed this news back in February: Chegg acquired RefMe.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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On video games , for example – yes, that old canard. blog : “ Elsevier Collaborates with Hypothesis to Integrate Open Annotation.” “Kidtech startup SuperAwesome is now valued at $100+ million and profitable,” Techcrunch informs us. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Elsevier has acquired Hivebench. ” Via the Democrat & Chronicle : “A small rural Orleans County school district says it has been a victim of a cyber attack that exposed personal information of thousands of workers and contractors.” Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech).