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Bits & Bytes
"Bits and Bytes" includes recommended reading on other sites, editorial and web site updates, and other ephemera.
Quick Update On LMS Subscription Service
We’re working hard to improve our LMS market analysis subscription service. Here are the latest improvements and plans.
SRI’s Study on Gates Personalized Learning Grants Is Out
This is almost old news now, but we just haven’t been able to dig into it yet. As part of its Adaptive Learning Market Acceleration Program (ALMAP) program, the Gates Foundation funded SRI to do a study of the results of the grants after two years. I hope to finally clear some time to parse through […]
Our LMS Subscription is Available Today
Today we are pleased to announce that our LMS subscription service is available for purchase. As promised, we have kept the promotion on the blog to a minimum, providing details instead to people who specifically sign up for the mailing list. But since today is the big unveiling, it seems appropriate to tell you all […]
The First e-Literate Subscription Product
Not too long ago, Phil and I wrote a post about our long, slow process of realization that our blogging at e-Literate and our consulting at MindWires are not two mostly unrelated things but really two halves of a whole. And we teased the idea that these two worlds would be coming together soon. Today we’re ready to pull back […]
We Need a More Robust Learning Sciences Research Community
My latest Chronicle column is on how inherently difficult it is to evaluate learning science claims, particularly when they get boiled down to marketing claims about product efficacy, and how deep academic distrust of vendors makes this already incredibly difficult challenge nearly impossible. Here’s where I stand on vendor participation in ed tech and learning science research: […]
Another Email Subscription Update
Those of you subscribed to the site by email may have noticed that you didn’t get anything in the last 24 hours. (Or maybe you didn’t notice, since the email never came.) We are aware of the problem. The new system sends a message once a day and is next scheduled to send an email […]