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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Inside Higher Ed : “The National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, which oversees the country’s higher ed accrediting bodies, voted Thursday to have a subcommittee study oversight questions involved in for-profit colleges seeking to reclassify as nonprofit entities.” ” Finally.

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Via Motherboard : “ New York City Passes Bill to Study Biases in Algorithms Used by the City.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via NPR : “Hi, Robot : Adults, Children And The Uncanny Valley.” iContracts has acquired the EasyCampus LMS from Educadium. ” Education in the Courts.

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Via The Chicago Tribune : “Almost all student loan fraud claims involve for-profit colleges , study finds.” The business of OER. Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein continues to fight the LMS fight: “Fear and Loathing in the Moodle Community.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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LMS news from Edsurge : “​ University of Michigan ’s Gamified LMS Opens Up to Other Institutions.” Among those cringeworthy ideas: the LMS. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Edsurge : “Why a Robot-Filled Education Future May Not Be as Scary as You Think.” Study Shows Choices Are Slim.”

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” Via Edsurge : “As Bootcamps Look for Novel Ways for Students to Pay For Their Studies, Many Try ‘ Deferred Tuition ’ ” Do note how student financial aid startups are still raising venture capital (and how now, I guess, ed-tech publications cover these stories when before they insisted these weren’t ed-tech).

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” On the chopping block: Latin American Studies and Computer Science. Via eCampus News : “ Cengage launches MindTap ACE, an OER-based solution for higher ed.” ” The LMS as gateway to a job application. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Sloan Foundation has awarded DPLA $1.5

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The NAACP endorses OER. ” The scholarship, “for young women studying creative arts, music, literature, or African-American studies,” will be offered to students at Berklee College of Music , Howard University , Parsons School of Design , and Spelman College. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Move along.