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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. As such these companies – Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and the like – are the most significant education companies. Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright.

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