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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

Edsurge

Take LiveEdu , for example, a Y Combinator-backed online learning company that touts itself as being the “next-gen Lynda.com,” referring to a platform that offers online courses and skills training. Matryx offers a marketplace and bounty system for researchers to buy, sell and mix digital assessment and research.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.). The company has raised some $77.5 Corporate platforms attempting to control if not monopolize what has been (or should be) public institutions.

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On building learning playlists

NeverEndingSearch

Some of my colleagues use Lynda.com to gather playlists from specific elements selected across the hundreds of offered courses. They can include interactive elements and assessments of progress. It would be a simple task to make multiple versions of a document with different playlists inserted.

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36 Edtech Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life

The CoolCatTeacher

I moved all of my documents to Dropbox. I also want them to know how to collaborate and communicate in the document. . Microsoft Word (Personal Wordprocessing for Basic Documents). I went through an incredible course on Lynda.com in January to help me use it better each day. Dropbox (for syncing files).

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