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

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It's entertaining, I guess — the dinosaurs and the Neanderthals and the Industrial Revolution, and stuff like that. AllLearn wasn't the only online education failure of the early 2000s, of course. Columbia University invested $30 million into its own online learning initiative, Fathom, that opened in 2000 and closed in 2003.