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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It Microsoft : “Microsoft launches Intune for Education to counter Google’s Chromebooks in schools,” Techcrunch reported in January. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The NAACP endorses OER. ” Gotta love a quote like this, from a story in Edsurge profiling McComb, Mississippi ’s Summit Elementary School: “We are learning how to mitigate between policy and trying to be as innovative as possible without breaking state laws.” ” Oh. Increased by just 2, but still.).

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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. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” And I’d never gotten my Ph.D.

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