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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Remember Edmodo? Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” She was, apparently, at Koch Industries. Edsurge covers OpenEd : “Beyond Free Materials: OER Advocates Push For Inclusiveness in Teaching Practices.” “ Does OER Actually Improve Learning? Via Edsurge : “Drinking, Smoking and Sugar: How Unsavory Ads Wound Up on Edmodo.” “The U.S.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators.

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