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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.


 

Some Notes On Lumen Learning’s $3.75 million Funding Round Led By Follett

By Phil Hill. Posted on April 17, 2017

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OER implementation gets a major investor with a lot of leverage in the market.

Cengage and OER Podcast Series: Two steps forward and one step back

By Phil Hill. Posted on April 5, 2017

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Cengage seems both serious and honest in their ongoing attempts to understand the growing role of OER in the curricular materials market, but they are still climbing the learning curve.

Recommended Reading: CBE platforms represent a truly niche market

By Phil Hill. Posted on March 20, 2017

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Triggered by the news that we broke here at e-Literate that “Ellucian Stops Support for Brainstorm, its CBE platform”, Carl Straumsheim at Inside Higher Ed has a valuable follow-up article today looking more broadly at the CBE platform market. In “Finding a Niche in a Niche Market”, Carl interviews chief product and strategy officer at Ellucian, […]

Recommended Reading: Signs of Restraint in the Analytics Hype Machine

By O'Neal Spicer. Posted on March 13, 2017

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Mike Sharkey’s recent post on the Blackboard blog site, “Analytics isn’t a thing,” triggered by an epiphany he had while reading the latest NMC Horizon Report, suggests that we might finally be seeing a maturation in the much-hyped analytics space. Rather than viewing analytics as a product category in and of itself, Mike concludes that […]

Why Ed Tech Will Fail to Transform Education (for Now)

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on March 13, 2017

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The push to solve education’s problems through providing better tech is a little like trying to invent the pharmaceutical industry in absence of a modern medical profession. In this post, we imagine what that might have looked like. (Spoiler alert: It wouldn’t have worked.)

Vert Capital and Scriba Corp: Institutions losing course data in company’s death throes

By Phil Hill. Posted on February 16, 2017

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After last year’s disastrous outage at UC Davis due to Scriba Corp’s change of data center for the Sakai LMS (branded as SmartSite at UC Davis), it turns out that there is more damage to be done as the company slowly disappears. What appears to have happened in the past few months is that Scriba has […]

Ellucian Stops Support for Brainstorm, its CBE platform

By Phil Hill. Posted on February 14, 2017

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In a surprise move, Ellucian has decided to end support for Brainstorm, the competency-based education (CBE) platform it acquired from Helix Education two years ago. All Brainstorm customers are being notified of the end-of-life and aggressive measures are being used to help these customers quickly migrate to alternative platforms. Ellucian staff contacted me to share the […]
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