Who Is the Theranos of Education?
Mary Jo Madda,
EdSurge,
Jul 27, 2022
Theranos, as this article suggests, "not only wasted millions of dollars, but put some patients' health in jeopardy." It served as an object lesson of the dangers of a 'fake it till you make it' methodology. So who is the Theranos of education, asks Mary Jo Madda. She offers two candidates: AltSchool, which "sought to create a network of microschools buoyed by a technology platform containing self-paced courses and curriculum"; and Knewton, an adaptive learning platform whose "founders oversold the potential of their adaptive software."
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