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Hack Education Weekly News

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The NAACP endorses OER. Purdue University is buying Kaplan University for a dollar. Me, I wrote about how far Kaplan Inc ’s reach is in education politics and products. For what it’s worth, according to the latest data from the NCES , the number of post-secondary institutions in the US has increased since 2011.

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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. Or rather, their interest wasn’t in the features of the new LMS. There were several high profile closures of bootcamps — Dev Bootcamp, owned by Kaplan Inc.,

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