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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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It’s not even an LMS, quite frankly – something Edmodo tried to use as a selling point for a little while. I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. The LMS has long positioned itself as an “operating system,” of sorts for higher education. If so, what are they?

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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. Or rather, their interest wasn’t in the features of the new LMS. In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.)

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