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Stephen Downes

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Yusuf Ahmed has had an interesting history, including working directly with the President of the American University in Cairo (AUC) during the Egyptian revolution. Today he is a cofounder of the non-profit PlayLab AI. This interview covers a range of topics related to education and technology. Including this: "We could have easily created Playlab as a closed platform—similar to something like Teachers Pay Teachers, Facebook, or Amazon. But we chose a different path. Consider a world where libraries weren't public institutions. In such a scenario, access to books would depend on purchasing them or subscribing to a service."

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