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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It “Now Any Organization Can Create Content for LinkedIn Learning,” Edsurge reported in June.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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” The technology revolution has delivered Google searches, Facebook friends, iPhone apps, Twitter rants and shopping for almost anything on Amazon, all in the past decade and a half. LinkedIn, of course, had acquired online job training company Lynda.com last year for $1.5 What it hasn’t delivered are many jobs.