Online Course Design Rubrics, Part 1: What are they?
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.
Flawed AEI Report on Online Education: The good, the bad, and the ugly
At what point does a theme become a schtick? These ‘deeply flawed’ reports on online education are pushing towards the latter.
I’m Giving a Live-streamed Talk on Thursday at SUNY
Cue the Steely Dan lyrics.
Moodle Workplace: A new product and change in open source deployment
Moodle HQ more aggressively pushing into pro-ed market with Moodle Workplace with a change in how open source code is deployed (hint, it’s not universally available).
Why Higher Ed Hypes: The MOOC Example
Even good, smart people lose their minds sometimes.
D2L: Continuing emphasis on services and completion of move to SaaS model
If you want story of aggressive migration to SaaS model (public cloud) for an LMS company, look no further than D2L and Brightspace. Transformation to be complete in 2019.
OPM Readings: New policy briefing from UCT and other useful coverage
Four recent articles about the OPM market that are worth reading.