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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. And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.” ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) ” But what did Facebook do?

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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. In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright.

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