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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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. …This is key to its advantage over traditional business models when it comes to data, since a platform positions itself (1) between users, and (2) as the ground upon which their activities occur, which thus gives it privileged access to record them. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” Elsevier has acquired SSRN , an online open access repository. From iNACOL: “ Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning.” (Remember what I’ve said: watch the student loan space.).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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