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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (245982)	3/1/2014 12:57:14 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) of 542139

As a software engineer, I spent my career working for companies that created educational software, implementing designs created by instructional designers, that usually ran under learning management systems that tracked each student's progress. I'm sure software I created has been used by 10's of thousands of students across the US. The companies faced large challenges. They had to sell software and hardware (computer labs) to school districts already strapped for cash across the US. Most educators and administrators begin being somewhat technophobic. Teachers and teacher's unions saw the products I created as threatening to their jobs. All the companies, most startups, failed and their products were acquired by the last game going in the field, Plato Learning Systems. en.wikipedia.org Schools have very limited budgets, and when they buy expensive stuff, it has to last for years. High technology like computers are often obsolete and worth practically nothing in just a few years. I'm wondering how the schools that bought these feel now: These are some of the educational games I helped develop that run on the Sony Playstation: ebay.com

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