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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.
Major Changes at e-Literate and MindWires
Act 1 ends. Act 2 begins.
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.
I’m Giving a Live-streamed Talk on Thursday at SUNY
Cue the Steely Dan lyrics.
Moodle Workplace: A new product and change in open source deployment
Moodle HQ more aggressively pushing into pro-ed market with Moodle Workplace with a change in how open source code is deployed (hint, it’s not universally available).
D2L: Continuing emphasis on services and completion of move to SaaS model
If you want story of aggressive migration to SaaS model (public cloud) for an LMS company, look no further than D2L and Brightspace. Transformation to be complete in 2019.