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education technology

2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

Thinker

Luis von Ahn

Guatemalan-American computer scientist and CEO of Duolingo, inventor of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, who applied behavioral psychology and game mechanics to language learning — creating the most downloaded education app in the world.

computer scienceeducation technologyhuman computation
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Michael Horn

American education policy expert and co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation — who wrote Disrupting Class (with Clayton Christensen) — arguing that online education represents a disruptive innovation that will transform K-12 schooling.

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