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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 10 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 8, 2017 New Solutions—Not Just New Winners—In the Curriculum Marketplace | New America → Innovative uses of OER offer an entirely new way of answering the question of how we solve for inefficiencies in the curriculum marketplace, rather than just advocating for new winners.

EdTech 170
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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Or the company will have to start charging for the software. 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. After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts.

Pearson 145
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Hack Education Weekly News

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The Common Core aligned reading software maker had raised $1.8 Who’s keeping track of how many times The New York Times has gotten into (and gotten out of) the education business? ” Trends to watch: investors’ interest in English language learning (software). Upgrades and Downgrades.