By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Social Cost of Bad Online Marketing
Alexandra Samuel, Harvard Business Revew, 2016/04/20

I would probably lump 'bad online learning content' into the same category. Here's the issue: As Lyons puts it, marketers "took the Internet, one of the most wonderful and profound inventions of all time, and polluted it with advertising and turned it into a way to sell stuff." This is true of roughly 90 percent of the stuff I read for this newsletter every day. More...