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

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"The only thing that matters is the future," Levandoski told the magazine. Blackboard, however, really upset folks in 2006 when it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against its competitor Desire2Learn (D2L), one day after receiving the patent for "Internet-based education support system and methods. Unfathomable.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

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” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. In October of 2006 , Gartner said that Apple’s “best bet for long-term success is to quit the hardware business and license the Mac to Dell.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Nicole Eramo, a former dean of students, is suing the magazine for $7.9 Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ XuetangX : A Look at China’s First and Biggest MOOC Platform.” More via NPR. ” Talking to them, I guess, is not an option.