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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). million devices shipped to primary and secondary schools in the US last year – that’s up from 50% in 2015. Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this decade — from ITT to coding bootcamps, from Trump University to the Draper University of Heroes — we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works now. Course Signals. Students who completed courses were more likely to complete courses.)

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