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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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It’s not even an LMS, quite frankly – something Edmodo tried to use as a selling point for a little while. The LMS has long positioned itself as an “operating system,” of sorts for higher education. The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I If so, what are they?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Knewton has partnered with WebAssign. Will it also expand its “Concierge” services , in which the company takes a cut of contracts it facilitates between schools and ed-tech companies, into post-secondary markets? ” Coming soon to an LMS near you… Data and “Research” Via T.H.E.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this decade — from ITT to coding bootcamps, from Trump University to the Draper University of Heroes — we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works now. Or rather, their interest wasn’t in the features of the new LMS. Socorro Dove.

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