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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. They’re amazing.

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Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing

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There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president. Who might benefit from such a restrictive definition of universities? What are promises that – legally – post-secondary institutions can or must make? So I thought maybe this is the way it works.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

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” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. Don’t mess with her on Twitter. These have all been separate articles in each series. Watch Tressie McMillan Cottom on The Daily Show. weird that, eh?)