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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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