Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2023

We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now. You all are actually teaching writing differently because you got all these computers and you adopted a piece of software that's helping you teach writing differently. And I was like, ‘What?’

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Hack Education

AUGUST 28, 2019

Google and Facebook are paradigmatic here, and Zuboff argues that the former was instrumental in discovering the value of behavioral surplus when it began, circa 2003, using user data to fine-tune ad targeting and to make predictions about which ads users would click on. I don’t buy it.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 11, 2022

(Longtime readers may recall that the research group I founded at Utah State University in 2003, the Open Sustainable Learning Opportunities group, became The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning in 2005, which I directed until I moved to BYU.) The empirical work on the sustainability of open source software (e.g.,

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Marc Andreessen famously said that “software is eating the world,” but it’s far more accurate to say that the neoliberal values of software tycoons are eating the world. Every industry uses computers, software, and internet services. Facebook, like Google, is an advertising company.

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