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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. Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.”

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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. In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.)

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