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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.”

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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LinkedIn, of course, had acquired online job training company Lynda.com last year for $1.5 We also see it in many instances of adaptive-learning software. But all these startups are going to have to battle another technology giant in the hunt for job-hunters : Microsoft. We’ve seen this before in the MOOC world.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on social media.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.