What is a retention early warning system? What is it good for? What are its limitations? And how are its failings representative of the unfulfilled potential of so many ed tech products? You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers.
Learning Analytics
This category covers learning analytics products, the larger markets for them, and the science (or lack thereof) behind them.
Carnegie Mellon’s $100 Million Announcement
And now for something completely different.
Instructure: Plans to expand beyond Canvas LMS into machine learning and AI
Instructure is not the same company it was just a year or two ago. Thanks to public reporting, the changes are out in the open.
Experience Economy: Enterprise software view into persistence and future of LMS market
How SAP’s massive purchase of Qualtrics can help answer why the LMS is so persistent and a helpful way to look at formative assessment and data analytics.
Short eLiterate Course on Analytics and Adaptive Learning
We’ve released a new short course of six animated explainers that introduce educators to basic concepts related to learning analytics and adaptive learning.
Barnes & Noble Education’s Predictive Analytics Deal With Unizin
Unizin and (Barnes & Noble-owned) LoudCloud have an analytics deal. Frankly, we’re still not entirely clear on what either organization is doing.
Student-Centered Educational Software
In a shocking development, recent research has shown that students do better when they feel like they belong at school, they are supported by their teachers and advisors, and they are studying things that actually matter. And yet, much of so-called “student-centered” ed tech does not focus on helping with any of these things.