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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. ” In reviewing Srnicek’s book in March, New York Times media journalist John Hermann wrote , Platforms are, in a sense, capitalism distilled to its essence. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?).

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S3: A Holistic Framework for Evaluating the Impact of Educational Innovations (Including OER)

Iterating Toward Openness

These writings included ideas like the golden ratio ( 2009 ), the OER impact factor ( 2014 ), and thinking more broadly about impact ( 2018 ). see the prices of printed OpenStax books on Amazon ). You could use it to measure the impact of “things” like learning analytics or iPads or augmented reality.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).” And digital bits have replaced the need to cut down trees to make paper and waste ink to create those books.”

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