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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Elsevier has acquired SSRN , an online open access repository. ” “The average age for a child getting their first smartphone is now 10.3 .” Speaking of openwashing : “ Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core , Rise of ‘Open’ Resources.” ” Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? Elsevier has acquired bepress. As The Scholarly Kitchen’s Roger Schonfeld writes, “Elsevier is now a major if not the foremost single player in the institutional repository landscape. ” This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines. ” asks Edsurge.