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Hack Education Weekly News

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” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. Lots of news this week about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. ” “ OER , CARE , Stewardship, and the Commons” by “Econproph” Jim Luke.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Meanwhile, as The New York Times reports : “ Facebook , Under Fire in Russia Inquiry, Posts 79% Rise in Profit.” " The majors include sociology, media studies, and political science. Tell me more about how the blockchain is going to “verify learning.” ” LOL. ” Of course he did.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via The Seattle Times : “Shooter sent Facebook message to Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos before gunfire at UW protest, police say.” ” The Linked Learning Alliance is a voluntary certification program for California’s high school career academies. ” Yup. An alt-right protester shot an antifa.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A divided federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s ruling that a Minnesota community college was justified when it kicked a student out of a nursing program because of Facebook comments administrators deemed to be unprofessional and threatening to fellow students.”