







MIT and Harvard University announced a major transition for edX, the online platform for university courses: edX’s assets are to be acquired by education technology company 2U, and reorganized as a public benefit company. 2U will transfer $800 million to a nonprofit organization, led by MIT and Harvard, to explore the next generation of online education.
AI Is Quietly Changing Who Gets to Build Software
What If Universities No Longer Need Edtech Companies?

Norway Abandons Ed-Tech, Embraces Books
A massive revolt against educational technology in the classroom is under way, especially in certain European nations. Education leaders in some countries have concluded that Ed-tech is the primary…

This big university system is embracing AI. Students and faculty aren't all on board
The California State University system offers an early look at what happens when an administration commits to a technology that its own community isn't convinced will improve education.

Faculty Push Back Against OpenAI Deals
As higher ed institutions pay tech companies millions to provide students and faculty access to custom AI-powered tools, some faculty in Colorado and California are pushing back.

License Agreement
Basically... the MIT do-whatever-you-want license, but with the commercial rights for SaaS reserved for the copyright holder.

Harvard Business Impact Education
Academia.edu - Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers
Academia.edu is the platform to share, find, and explore 64 Million research papers. Join us to accelerate your research needs & academic interests.
Academia.edu - Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers
Academia.edu is the platform to share, find, and explore 65 Million research papers. Join us to accelerate your research needs & academic interests.
Deprecation Notice: MIT and BSD
it’s time to retire thirty-year-old academic licenses

Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy by Tressie McMillan Cottom (2017, The New Press) is simply excellent. Here's an excerpt, here's Dr. McMillan Cottom's page about the book, here's … | Cogito, Ergo Sumana | Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS)
OMSCS is for students who want a top-ranked degree, but also the flexibility to fit it in around their work and family lives. Students who want to push their own career forward, but without the high cost of an on-campus degree program. Students who want to be part of the Georgia Tech family. In OMSCS, all required courses and activities are supplied asynchronously, which means you can view them on your own schedule. You can take one course per semester, and take up to six years to finish the degree. We graduated 10,000 alumni in our first 10 years, and we know how to teach and support our online students. Forbes called us “the greatest degree program ever,” because of our cost, our culture, and our industry ties. Explore this website to learn more.
The Ed. Dept. Wants to Steer Grant Money to AI. What That Means for Schools
The Education Department is proposing to make advancing AI in education one of its grantmaking priorities.

MIT Center for Civic Media – Creating Technology for Social Change
At the end of August 2020, the Center for Civic Media at MIT will close down. Established in 2007 as the Center for Future Civic Media, the Center has been a longstanding collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the Comparative Media Studies / Writing program at MIT. Over the past thirteen years, hundreds of students, researchers, visiting scholars, faculty members and members of communities in the Boston area and worldwide have contributed to the work that's unfolded here. I’d like to pause and recognize the work that's been done and the many people who've made it possible.
Sharetribe Go becomes source-available after being open-source for 8 years
Today, we are changing the license of Sharetribe Go from MIT to Sharetribe Community Public Licence. For 99.9% of the users of self-hosted…

1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)
www.nytimes.com1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)
www.nytimes.com