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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.). Pearson does not have a platform. .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“The ‘poor man’s MBA’ can boost salaries by 20%,” says CNN in a puff piece about LinkedIn , Lynda.com , and project management certificates. ” Not Tressie McMillan Cottom, for example. Via teachonline.ca : “Directory of Vendors of Online Learning Products and Services.”

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