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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. Someone generously re-posted all the content from that blog to a Posterous site. Subscribe to their blog. They’re amazing.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Testing, Testing… Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “British Officials, Pearson Probe Effort to Leak Test Content.” From the World Bank’s ed-tech blog : “How students in Uruguayan schools are being taught English over the Internet by teachers in Argentina – and in the UK & the Philippines.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Infodocket : “ University of Delaware Library Joins Open Textbook Network.” More on the Classroom API via the G Suite Developers Blog. in the Classroom” – by Rose Luckin and Wayne Holmes and sponsored by Pearson, of course. ” Accreditation and Certification. “G Suite.”).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. From the Coursera blog : “Coursera pilots a new course format.” billion it agreed to pay Apple/Pearson for iPads, but what do I know). Contests and Awards.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “ Cengage , McGraw-Hill , and Pearson have started a new round of lawsuits against textbook sellers,” The Digital Reader reports , this time targeting those who sell through Amazon’s marketplace. ” Via the Coursera blog : “Announcing Coursera for Governments & Nonprofits.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via the Udacity blog : “Introducing the Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree program.” ” In other MIT news : “MIT task force releases preliminary ‘Future of Libraries ’ report.” IBM partners with Pearson. OpenEd partners with Pearson.