Edmodo, the social network for online learning, has acquired education app tool Root-1 as part of efforts to expand its app platform. Edmodo has tripled its user base to 18 million K-12 teachers and students, and has added 400 apps since the platform launched a year ago.
The best and brightest are usually put to work on optimisation. … They will then go forward and solve the inefficiencies, and that’s where 99% of most energy is spent on. But, at some point you run out of room to improve things, and that’s when you have to step aside and ask, can we make it different?
— Horace Dediu, in a podcast interview with William Channer
