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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

Hack Education

Columbia University invested $30 million into its own online learning initiative, Fathom, that opened in 2000 and closed in 2003. For a long time, arguably Blackboard was one of the major ed-tech villains. But Blackboard filed the patent; and Blackboard decided to be the patent bully. " Let's not forget that.