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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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People were relieved that there was a new alternative to Blackboard. The company IPO’d in 2015 and finally surpassed Blackboard’s US market share in 2018. What mattered to this crowd was the business of ed-tech, not the pedagogies. And for a time, the business of Instructure was good. Apple sneers about this.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Edsurge : “ Republican Party Platform Addresses Education, Nods to Edtech.” “ Blackboard Learn Ultra : Ready or not?” (More on private student loans in the “upgrades and downgrades” section below.). “The Republican Platform on Higher Education Is a Mess,” says New America.