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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L. As such these companies – Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and the like – are the most significant education companies.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Did you ever wonder how your own students might perform on those dozens of tasks? You can now find out.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The NAACP endorses OER. It’s a partnership with Microsoft. For what it’s worth, according to the latest data from the NCES , the number of post-secondary institutions in the US has increased since 2011. Via Techcrunch : “As Chromebook sales soar in schools, Apple and Microsoft fight back.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. And it made its formal debut, rebranded as inBloom, at the 2013 SXSWedu conference , where Streichenberger appeared on stage with Bill Gates. Peter Thiel.

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