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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

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Google Drive will soon back up your entire computer,” says The Verge. For top students, taking an online course didn’t definitively have a negative effect on a student’s grade point average. ” “​ OER Researchers Don’t Disaggregate Data on Diverse Students. .” Don’t.