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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. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). As such these companies – Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and the like – are the most significant education companies.

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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. Apple sneers about this.

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