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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

“I can’t speak for other companies, but I have a lot of confidence in the reliability of our online assessments. It’s much harder to see that if we go back to the world of paper and pencil, bubble tests….they’re they’re not fit for what we need to prepare young people….to to apply things to the real world.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” Apple sneers about this.

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