Rather than comparing Instructure and Blackboard today, what if we compared each company’s first decade in business? One result – a new type of chart for us.
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.
Moody’s Downgrades Blackboard Debt, Focuses On Learn Ultra Delivery
Moody’s downgrades Blackboard’s debt. Behind the financial lingo lies some insight into the company’s turnaround efforts and impact from late delivery of Learn Ultra.
What is an Empirical Educator?
The heart of the Empirical Educator Project is to evolve a shared understanding of what it means to be an educator.
Online Program Management: Spring 2018 view of the market landscape
We break down the complex world of Online Program Management vendors. With updated pretty pictures.
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.
Courseware Without A Silver Bullet: Focusing on faculty enablement
At the Realizeit users conference, we interviewed company executives as they focus more on faculty enablement rather than the “adaptive learning” silver bullet, despite popular labels.
The Purgatory of Ed Tech Transformation Initiatives
With demise of Texas ITL, confession on failure of engineering model of personalized learning, and pivot from Jefferson Accelerator, it’s time to revise the Ed Tech Purgatory post.