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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

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PowerSchool acquired the K-12 LMS Schoology. Carnegie Mellon announced it would open source its digital learning software. Coursera raised $109 million in venture company because investors are cray. Google was fined $170 million for violating children’s privacy on YouTube. Google got into the anti-plagiarism business.

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The Business of Education Technology

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Daphne Koller left Coursera this year. The pressure to move towards digital assessments has fueled schools’ investments in hardware and software more than any other argument about the importance of ed-tech. The learning management system is a piece of “enterprise” software after all. The Procurement Problem.