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.
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.
Is Ed Tech Hype in Remission?
The rise and fall of Civitas-ation.
Insight into Community College Students and Challenges of Online Education
New survey on community colleges and perceived barriers provides insights into the nature of some pushback of online education
Deeply Flawed GMU Report on Online Education Asks Good Questions But Provides Misguided Analysis
Unlike Hoxby report, new GMU study of online education asks good questions and describes research accurately (for the most part), but like past report this one is also deeply flawed and causes more harm than good.
Fate of EDU For-Profits: A look into recent enrollment changes and shut downs
Continuing transformation of former large for-profit systems, with eye-squinting graphics
Grand Canyon Education Acquires Orbis: We have new segment of OPM market
Grand Canyon University parent company isn’t playing around – buys Orbis for $362 million to fully enter OPM market