ASU’s Lou Pugliese was kind enough to invite me to participate on a panel discussion on “Next-Generation Digital Platforms,” which was really about a soup of adaptive learning, CBE, and other stuff that the industry likes to lump under the heading “personalized learning” these days. One of the reasons the panel was interesting was that […]
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.
Blackboard CEO’s First 100 Days: Reorganization and Learn Ultra Updates
Just over four years after Providence Equity Partners acquired Blackboard and three years after they brought in Jay Bhatt to replace co-founder Michael Chasen, the company hired Bill Ballhaus as its new CEO at the beginning of January. 100 days in, Ballhaus is starting to make changes to the organization and providing some insights into future corporate directions. […]
Pop Quiz
Which CEO has recently said or done all of the following: Suggested to an audience of VCs and ed tech entrepreneurs at the GSV conference that the importance of big data in education has been overstated Told that same audience that the biggest gains from adaptive learning come when it is wrapped in good pedagogy […]
State of Higher Ed LMS Market for US and Canada: Spring 2016 Edition
This is the eighth year I have shared the LMS market share graphic, commonly known as the squid graphic, for (mostly) US higher education. The original idea remains – to give a picture of the LMS market in one page, highlighting the story of the market over time. The key to the graphic is that […]
Signup For More Information On LMS Subscription Service
As we roll out our upcoming LMS subscription service here at e-Literate (see Michael’s post for initial description), we suspect that many of the e-Literate readers will be interested, but not all. We value the community here at e-Literate and want to ensure that the blog site itself remains as it’s always been – ad […]
The First e-Literate Subscription Product
Not too long ago, Phil and I wrote a post about our long, slow process of realization that our blogging at e-Literate and our consulting at MindWires are not two mostly unrelated things but really two halves of a whole. And we teased the idea that these two worlds would be coming together soon. Today we’re ready to pull back […]
The Odd Couple: How Ed Tech Must Support Vastly Different Types of Professors
An edited version of this post was first published at The Chronicle of Higher Education Let’s admit it, there can be some real tension when a college is faced with choosing a new learning-management system, or any software used by more than one department. Since the decision involves the administrators who will support the system […]