Panning for Gold in EdTech
Ed Tech
The "Ed Tech" category includes posts about educational technology products themselves, including LMSs and other learning platforms, adaptive learning and other digital curricular materials products, learning analytics, and educational apps of all types. It also includes technical aspects of ed tech products, especially interoperability.
The Chegg Situation is Worse Than You Think
There is a lot of blame to go around, including in some unexpected places.
There’s a Layer in Between Learning Content and Learning Analytics
This post explores an important aspiration of the collaboration between CMU OLI and ASU ETX on building a new courseware platform.
A Courseware Platform for Expressing Pedagogical Intent
This is an overview of the collaboration between ASU’s ETX Center and CMU’s OLI to build a next-generation courseware platform.
Good vs. Great Product Teams
Allowing teams to do their work is the hard part. Michael and I do a fair bit of work on topics like product-market fit and validating clients’ product and market strategies. We recently completed work with a company that I would characterize as a good exemplar of a “great” product team. In fact, during one […]
The Netflix of Education, ad nauseum
To get the model right, we need to inspect the value chain more closely. It’s been a COVID- and US national politics-blurred couple of months since I last posted here. Much has transpired in those months and it’s clear that nothing in education and EdTech will be the same as it was, and yet we […]
A Next-Generation Open Source Courseware Platform Collaboration
It’s time for “courseware” to lose it’s connotation of a canned product and become a medium for academic collaboration on continuous improvement of teaching effectiveness.