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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

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Why Are We Still Personalizing Learning If It’s Not Personal? Despite our good intentions, personalized learning in practice often falls short, says educator Paul Emerich France. The problem arises when people conflate personalization with individualization. Any firm operating in the U.S.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. And “free” doesn’t last. Diamond Dove.

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