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Blackboard Co-Founder: ‘4 Secrets to Building a Tech Company for Higher Ed’

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Reading the book “Accidental Empires,” my favorite tech history, helped me imagine that an academic system was more than just another enterprise application; it was an operating system or platform for instruction. Universities often ask to get a product for free, promising to be a reference or case study.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

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But other experiences and co-curricular things occur outside that framework like labs, like service learning, like research, like case studies. So why not think of a better way to do it where if I’m doing case studies, I meet once a week for two hours? You put the schedule in it.

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