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Stephen Downes

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Readers will be forgiven if they don't know what the Yelp of Yelp is. The story says "Education technology now has its own version of popular, user-generated review sites like Yelp and Amazon." How popular is Yelp? It's popular enough that you can get restaurant reviews for many of Moncton's eateries - not bad for a small Canadian city. But student review sites are not new - they've been around more than a decade (see ratemyprofessor.com). In this case, someone with good enough connections to land a Chronicle article has "made public Software PhD, which is designed to allow educators and vendors to exchange frank, constructive views about education software."

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