This week is the week of the big annual EDUCAUSE conference which, among other things, is the world’s largest ed tech fashion show. In the next five days, we will learn that earth tones are the latest style for adaptive personalized learning systems, and that hemlines and license fees are both going way up […]
From the Editors
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Please Welcome Featured Blogger Elijah Mayfield
When the story first broke a while back about the Kaggle contest for robo-grading essays that could be “similar to” human graders, I got interested. So after doing a little reading, I ended up contacting a guy by the name of Elijah Mayfield, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the winners […]
Please Welcome Guest Blogger Bill Jerome
I’m pleased to announce that Bill Jerome, the Associate Director of User Experience at OLI, will be writing some guest post on educational data analytics and related topics. This is an area where there is a lot of industry hype and not a lot of understanding right now. I’m really pleased to have an expert […]
Beyond the MOOC Hype: Getting Serious about Online Learning
Phil and I will be giving a webinar with the same title as this blog post for EDUCAUSE ELI on Monday, February 11th at 1 PM ET. It’s aimed at folks on campuses, especially Presidents, Provosts, and other academic decision-makers, who weren’t necessarily focused on online learning in the way that they are now that […]
Announcing MindWires Consulting
Phil and I are both gearing up for the Rebooting CA Higher Education jamboree, but I wanted to take a moment to briefly (and proudly) announce that the two of us will be starting a new company called MindWires Consulting. As you may know, Phil has been working with Delta Initiative; we expect to continue partner with Delta […]
I’m Starting a Consulting Practice
It’s been a wild year-and-a-half working at Cengage Learning. I got to work on a project that I believe is one of the best educational technology ideas that I’ve seen in the last decade. I got to manage a product team and budget for the go-forward, mission-critical digital product of a company with a billion […]
The Odometer Flips at e-Literate
Phil Hill pointed out to me a while ago that we were approaching our 1,000th post here on e-Literate, and I am tardy responding to the occasion. This post is mainly to say thank you for sticking with us. I am continually amazed and humbled by your interest and participation. On related note, I still am […]