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

Hack Education

Despite the failure of AllLearn, in 2014, Levin was named the CEO of Coursera. 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. Coursera founder Daphne Koller.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. But the most interesting developments are happening a little further downstream.

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