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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. Indeed, while there are handful who work arduously to undermine its privileged position in education technology – god bless them – to many more , it is simply impossible to imagine a future of teaching and learning without the LMS.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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People were relieved that there was a new alternative to Blackboard. The company IPO’d in 2015 and finally surpassed Blackboard’s US market share in 2018. In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) What mattered to this crowd was the business of ed-tech, not the pedagogies.

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