Jim Shimabukuro picks up on the new 'open' being touted by the larger corporations and notices that by 'open' they mean 'closed'. "Microsoft’s Office 365 and Google’s Apps for Education are the latest in an endless line of gimmicks for supremacy in the cloudy learning management platform (CLMP) battle," he writes (great acronym, by the way). "Free for the enterprise doesn’t necessarily translate to free for the individual in the classroom who actually uses the CLMP — the teacher. For the overwhelming majority of enterprises, the primary concern is control, and that control is ultimately manifested in power over how teachers will use technology."
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