{"id":32560,"date":"2020-12-06T04:07:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T09:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=4b20cb2cef828f18824e2e8721989972"},"modified":"2020-12-06T04:07:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T09:07:36","slug":"monopoly-technology-platforms-are-colonizing-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=32560","title":{"rendered":"Monopoly Technology Platforms Are Colonizing Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/instituteforpubliceducation.org\/monopoly-technology-platforms-are-colonizing-education\/\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: This is only the _new_ carpetbaggers, the publishers (see: Cengage) have been in that game for a long time.  \r\n\r\nIt's a market where the customers are two layers removed from the users (deanlets make the purchasing decisions, instructors tolerate, students suffer) so of course it's terrible and driven by risk-aversion. \r\n\r\nThat said, _reliability_ and _consistency_ make the hand-rolled ed tech a problem - if students need a different platform for each class, you've created an unacceptable burden. If shit keeps breaking, it's a burden on the students.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=25322202\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=32560\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}