Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

The business of OER. Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein continues to fight the LMS fight: “Fear and Loathing in the Moodle Community.” The student travel abroad company WorldStrides has raised $500 million from Eurazeo and Primavera Capital Group. TBH, I still can’t remember what Unizin actually is.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) Google gives a lot of money to similar sorts of groups, including many, many education-related ones.). “At the most general level,” Srnicek writes.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

In related news: “ Right-wing groups are recruiting students to target teachers ,” says Reveal. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Economic Boom Isn’t Helping Some Student-Loan Debtors , Advocacy Group Says.” Via Edsurge : “Campus Support for OER is Growing, Survey Finds.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” Via Buzzfeed : “The Education Department Quietly Invited Anti-LGBT Groups To A Father’s Day Event.” ” The groups, Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council , both advocate for “gay conversion therapy.” ” “Whither Moodle ?”

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JULY 21, 2017

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “More than 50 groups have signed a letter demanding that Candice E. This coding bootcamp was acquired by the University of Phoenix’s parent company, Apollo Education Group , in 2015. His wife is the co-founder of OER organization CK–12.). Sounds Familiar.”

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

More on last week’s Purdue and Kaplan deal: “ Purdue ’s deal for Kaplan U trades a long-term business relationship for low up-front costs while raising worries – especially among faculty groups – about blurred lines between public and private higher ed,” Inside Higher Ed reports.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. Elsewhere in for-profit higher ed: “ Veterans Groups Seek a Crackdown on Deceptive Colleges,” The New York Times reports.

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