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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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Hack Education Weekly News

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

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” UC Davis suffered a week-long LMS outage , and lots of folks had to weigh in with their thoughts on what this meant about Sakai , running one’s own infrastructure , and open source. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Communications Experts Criticize Elsevier - Florida Pilot.” Resource EngageNY , By the Numbers.”