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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. 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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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. Google Reader. Google shut down Reader in 2013 , citing declining use of RSS. This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright.

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