Phil and I will be doing a webinar along with Echo 360’s Fred Singer for Inside Higher Ed. We’ll be talking about how to think about adopting these platforms in ways that create opportunities to encourage conversation within the campus community about pedagogy and improving student outcomes.
Bits & Bytes
"Bits and Bytes" includes recommended reading on other sites, editorial and web site updates, and other ephemera.
University of California’s Payroll Project Reboot Now At $504 Million
What’s an extra $38 million among friends?
Recommended Reading … or Not: Updates on UC Berkeley and NBER stories
We have a better understanding of UC Berkeley’s decision to remove free video lecture captures in response to an accessibility suit. Less so on Caroline Hoxby’s problematic paper on the ROI of online learning.
Recommended Reading: Ballmer group publishes “Annual Report” on government spending
This is an interesting model for transparency in government, with some good data on public education expenditures as a bonus.
Some Notes On Lumen Learning’s $3.75 million Funding Round Led By Follett
OER implementation gets a major investor with a lot of leverage in the market.
Digital Learning Compass: New WCET webcast on distance education enrollment trends
This Wednesday, April 19th, at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT I will be participating in a WCET webcast based on the latest National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) and its Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) data for the Fall 2015 term on distance education (DE) enrollment.
Recommended Reading: The Power of Explaining to Others
A think piece on thinking from Mike Caulfield. You read him regularly like we do, right?