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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. “ Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : ”Why Twitter Is Calling Abigail Fisher ’ Becky With the Bad Grades ’: A Brief Explainer.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Twitter announced big layoffs this week – 9% of its staff – and said it would shutter its video app Vine. Via the New York Magazine : “The Death of Vine Makes the Internet a Worse Place.” Via eCampus News : “ Barnes & Noble Education announces advanced OER courseware.”

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009.