In a major decision, the University of Wisconsin System – D2L’s flagship customer since 2002 – has finished its LMS evaluation and plans to migrate to Canvas.
WGU Audit: Likely impacts for fragile movement of competency-based education
Even if IG’s audit recommendations on WGU are not adopted by Dept of Ed, the findings will likely have a big impact in California and in the fragile movement of CBE.
WGU Audit Findings: Interpretations of “regular and substantive” and “self-paced”
The inspector general of the dept of education audits Western Governors University and under hyper-literal interpretation of regulations finds that WGU should not receive Title IV federal funding.
Response on LMS Market Size Analysis
A response to Josh Kim post at IHE questioning whether LMS market could be worth $5 billion as claimed by several market analysts.
Some Ed Tech Perspective on UC’s Billion-Dollar Payroll System Fiasco
A scathing report by the California state auditor describes UC’s billion-dollar payroll system fiasco for what it is. Some perspective would be helpful by comparing to ed tech expenses.
California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution
eVersity’s experience highlights a major challenge that states like Arkansas and California face when trying to create a new fully-online institution – the accreditation process is incredibly slow.
InstructureCon 2017: Culture as a competitive weapon
While D2L and Blackboard are showing real improvements lately, the Canvas LMS also continues to get better; while others seek to learn how to listen to customers, that’s been part of Instructure’s culture from day one.