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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. The earliest learning management systems were portals of sorts, offering Internet access to and a browser-based interface for the student information system (SIS) and the data it stored on students and courses: student records, rosters, class schedules, and the like.

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

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My project also makes some of the information available in a machine-readable format instead of solely in a PDF. (It “the Internet of Things”) have been on the horizon since 2009. It seems like a missed opportunity to be touting “the future of ed-tech” in a report that is designed for the printer.).

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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. Information is power.

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