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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. Think Facebook.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

It’s not really “free Internet,” of course – it’s Facebook as Internet. million laptops to all public primary schools. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? Raise $146.1

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. ” ( Not mentioned : Penn was one of the very first investors in Coursera.).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. Collared Dove.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

And The Next Web headline makes for… something: “ Facebook and Google could be allowed to award university degrees.” Via The Verge : “Lawsuit claims Facebook illegally scanned private messages.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).