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Hack Education Weekly News

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” The Chronicle of Higher Education on Elsevier “becoming a data company.” Phil Hill on an “LMS Revival: D2L picking up new customers and showing they can listen.” The Internet Archive’s Jason Scott on “Celebrating 30 Years of HyperCard.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Nature : “One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier , won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. LMS news from Edsurge : “​ University of Michigan ’s Gamified LMS Opens Up to Other Institutions.”

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” “ University of Wisconsin System to Migrate From D2L Brightspace to Canvas LMS” by Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of ScienceDirect Topics, an information platform that has been compared to Wikipedia.”

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Google has updated its pseudo-LMS, Classroom. ” Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill on “ Schoology , NEO, Claroline, Chamilo: The beginning of the LMS long tail.” ” Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill on “ Schoology , NEO, Claroline, Chamilo: The beginning of the LMS long tail.”

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” From the press release : “ Jisc Collections and Elsevier Sign Landmark UK Agreement, Securing Access to Research Publications and Initiating Open Science Collaboration.” ” Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill has data on what LMS is used by large online programs.

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RELX is the former weapons dealer known as Reed Elsevier. ” Data from e-Literate : “Contrasting LMS Adoption Patterns in Four English-Speaking Countries.” Sandbox has acquired Constructive Media. “FTSE giant RELX plots £100m? bid for Times Higher Education ,” SkyNews reports.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Elsevier has acquired SSRN , an online open access repository. ” From Mindwires Consulting: “ e-Literate Big Picture: LMS.” .” Speaking of openwashing : “ Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core , Rise of ‘Open’ Resources.” ” Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech).