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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). It’s now an LMS too.

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What's on the Horizon (Still, Again, Always) for Ed-Tech

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The topic names have been modified “for consistency,” the report’s authors say (although I’m a little unclear about some of these choices – how are “mobile learning,” “tablet computing,” and “bring your own device” separate technological developments?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Course Signals, a software product developed by Purdue University, was designed to boost “student success” by using learning analytics to inform teachers, students, and staff to potential problems, labeling students with a red/yellow/green scheme to indicate their danger in failing a course. Course Signals. They want the bundle.

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