Purdue/ Kaplan, Grand Canyon, Ashford U all going “nonprofit”, Coursera focuses on degrees – the common theme of recent for-profit and MOOC news? The OPM market.
Academics and Academia
The "Academics and Academia" category covers topics related the ways in which colleges and universities function that are relevant to technology-supported education. One key aspect covered here is pedagogy—how people teach—and how technology impacts teaching and learning.
But this category also includes more institutional aspects that are relevant to technology-supported education, such as how campus leadership supports (or doesn't support) new initiatives, politics and bureaucracy that impact these efforts, and so on.
Finally, "Academics and Academia" covers commercial and non-profit services that provide support for technology-supported education initiatives, such as Online Program Management (OPM) companies.
Courseware Without A Silver Bullet: Focusing on faculty enablement
At the Realizeit users conference, we interviewed company executives as they focus more on faculty enablement rather than the “adaptive learning” silver bullet, despite popular labels.
The Purgatory of Ed Tech Transformation Initiatives
With demise of Texas ITL, confession on failure of engineering model of personalized learning, and pivot from Jefferson Accelerator, it’s time to revise the Ed Tech Purgatory post.
Personalized Learning: What It Really Is and Why It Really Matters
Re-post of our 2016 article from EDUCAUSE Review framing personalized learning as family of teaching practices that are intended to help reach students in the metaphorical back row.
Visibility As A Benefit: Ole Miss and UCF share their stories on courseware usage
At the Realizeit users conference, we interviewed Ole Miss and UCF, who both described their experiences gaining greater visibility into student learning when using courseware.
An Alternative to the Engineering Model of Personalized Learning
Description in EdWeek about the ‘engineering model’ of personalized learning shows one side of a battle, and the antidote is improving teaching practices
Digital Courseware at Scale: APUS and Bay Path University share their stories
At the Realizeit users conference, we interviewed APUS and Bay Path University about their experiences deploying adaptive courseware at scale.