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ACT’s Latest Act: Investing in an Open-Source Assessment Startup

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Among them: the New York City of Department of Education, Elsevier, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and PARCC, the organization involved in delivering Common Core assessments. They include publishers, K-12 districts, higher-ed institutions, publishers and professional certification organizations.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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From the press release : “ Knewton Launches Alta, Fully Integrated Adaptive Learning Courseware for Higher Education, Putting Achievement in Reach for Everyone.” I don’t recall if I talked about Elsevier when I wrote about platforms as part of my 2017 review. That’s certainly it’s aspiration.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “ Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen ,” says TorrentFreak. Via Edsurge : “ Pearson , an Investor in Knewton , Is ‘Phasing Out’ Partnership on Adaptive Products.” Immigration and Customs Enforcement who was due to speak to a sociology class Tuesday.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” Elsevier has acquired SSRN , an online open access repository. (Remember what I’ve said: watch the student loan space.). ” Speaking of openwashing : “ Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core , Rise of ‘Open’ Resources.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Lots of folks in ed-tech seem super excited about Trump too, including Knewton’s Jose Ferreira , Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Harold O. Campus Technology reports that “ Elsevier Debuts Metrics Tracking Journal Performance.” Levy , and KnowledgeWorks ’ Lillian Pace. Both/and, I guess.