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” The Chronicle of Higher Education on Elsevier “becoming a data company.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via Education Week : “Risky Practices With Students’ Data Security Are Common, Survey Suggests.” The Internet Archive’s Jason Scott on “Celebrating 30 Years of HyperCard.”

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“‘Eton for all’: will robot teachers mean everyone gets an elite education? ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of ScienceDirect Topics, an information platform that has been compared to Wikipedia.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” asks The New Statesman.

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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. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Education in the Courts. ” More via The Chronicle of Higher Education. .”

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Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. RELX is the former weapons dealer known as Reed Elsevier. ” Survey data from Edweek’s Market Brief : “ Teachers’ Use of Ed-Tech Tools Rises Across the Board, But Time Pressures Persist.” ’ Must pass AI scan for respect and attitude.”

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” Via Infodocket : “ Louisiana State University is Suing Elsevier For Breach of Contract.” ” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” From the HR Department. Well, not quite.

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Elsevier Wants CloudFlare to Expose Pirate Sites,” TorrentFreak reports. ” According to a survey by Webroot , “Students Say They’d Only Pay Ransomware Operators About $50.” Many academics are fooled by robot-written peer reviews , Inside Higher Ed reports.

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I don’t recall if I talked about Elsevier when I wrote about platforms as part of my 2017 review. Anyway, here’s Richard Smith on Elsevier and “A Big Brother future for science publishing.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. That’s certainly it’s aspiration. ” Empathy?! .”