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Coursera is Evolving into a Third-Wave EdTech Company

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We often use the term “platform” in tech conversations to narrowly mean the features and architecture of a kind of software. The Coursera platform, writ large , connects universities, learners, government agencies, megacorporations, and local employers. It’s not like Coke and Pepsi. Multi-sided platforms have unusual characteristics.

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EdTech Malaise: “He Not Busy Born is Busy Dying”

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The editor, author, adopting teacher, instructional designer, cognitive science researcher, psychometrician, data scientist, and UX engineer may all work together to develop a unified vision for a product, but more often than not they are like the blind man and the elephant.