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(The Very Last) Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A glimpse : “In China ’s Silicon Valley, Edtech Starts at the ‘MOOC Times Building’ ” Via Class Central : “By The Numbers: MOOCs in 2018.” It’s like the MOOC crap all over again. ” asks The Atlantic.

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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. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Measuring Learning Outcomes From Military Service.” Billion By 2050.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “Make MOOCs great again.” Here’s a list of election outcomes pertaining to library-related measures , thanks to EveryLibrary.org. Trump’s education platform promises to “make post-secondary options more affordable and accessible through technology enriched delivery models.” Is that possible?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Elsevier has acquired SSRN , an online open access repository. .” Here’s the WaPo headline : “Girls outscore boys on inaugural national test of technology, engineering skills.” ” Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC news is now much more often “job training” news, so there’s more on MOOCs in that section below. ” Edsurge on Hypothes.is ’s partnership with Elsevier. ” Icon credits: The Noun Project