article thumbnail

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The Intercept : “These Are the Technology Firms Lining Up to Build Trump’s ‘Extreme Vetting’ Program.” Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2. ” The Chronicle of Higher Education on Elsevier “becoming a data company.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

article thumbnail

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

technologizing” the government. 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 The 74 : “ Montessori Was the Original Personalized Learning.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Ohio State University and Apple on Wednesday announced a collaboration that will start a digital learning effort at the university that Apple and university officials said may represent the company’s most ambitious program in higher education.” Technology, Education, and the Media.”

article thumbnail

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalized learning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” ” Via Infodocket : “ Louisiana State University is Suing Elsevier For Breach of Contract.”

Kaplan 46
article thumbnail

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. This story has me thinking a lot about “fake news” and education technology PR as misinformation. Meanwhile on Campus… Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Florida State Cancels Bundled Journal Deal With Elsevier.”

article thumbnail

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Also via Chalkbeat : “Black and white students score far apart on a new test of technology skills.” ” Here’s the WaPo headline : “Girls outscore boys on inaugural national test of technology, engineering skills.” Elsevier has acquired SSRN , an online open access repository.

article thumbnail

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Here are the education technology companies that have raised money from ISPs. ” “ Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen ,” says TorrentFreak. He’s referring to “ personalized learning ,” but might as well be any buzzword when you frame the headline that way, bud.).

Edmodo 45