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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. To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Maybe in 2015 as the universities that signed up to new contracts in 2009/10/11 start to come out of contract and look for something different. I haven’t mentioned anything about on-campus educational technology mainly because I’m almost entirely focussed on wholly online learning now. Nothing new in the LMS space.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Maybe in 2015 as the universities that signed up to new contracts in 2009/10/11 start to come out of contract and look for something different. I haven’t mentioned anything about on-campus educational technology mainly because I’m almost entirely focussed on wholly online learning now. Nothing new in the LMS space.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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. Google Reader. Course Signals.

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