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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Billion Federal Block Grant Makes Ed-Tech Training Higher Priority Than Software, Devices.” From the Google blog : “ Chromebook tablets for versatile learning.” ” Via The Verge : “Apple is ready to fight Google’s Chromebooks with cheaper iPads.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Although sometimes talked about as a “movement,” Mozilla’s Open Badges Project was really more of a technical specification, one that was transferred from Mozilla to IMS Global Learning Consortium in 2017. And “free” doesn’t last. Without revenue the company will go away.

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