Phil and I are thrilled to announce the release of our pilot e-Literate TV episode. Take a look. One thing you’ll want to pay attention to is the set of buttons in the upper left-hand corner of the TELLING STORY player: These buttons correspond to the three modes available to you. From left to right: Watch […]
Online Education in US Public 2-year Institutions, focus on Michigan
Last week I shared data tables for online education at US public 4-year institutions, with additional data for Florida. Now that I’m getting the process reasonably efficient for analyzing this data, there is some room for requests (hmm, slippery slope here). https://twitter.com/econproph/status/432308481786253313 Since Jim teaches in Michigan, let’s review the 2-year data with additional data […]
New look at LMS data for US small colleges
Last fall I mentioned two new non-survey data sources available to track LMS adoption within higher ed. While surveys for subjective, attitudinal information still make sense, surveys of hard data are losing their value over time. Analyses of automatically collected system data place less of a burden on the organizations providing the information, and these […]
Open Data: A case study using IPEDS for online education
At e-Literate we’re planning to do more data journalism posts. Think of this along the lines of Harper Reed’s keynote last year as described in the Chronicle. Harper Reed, who served as chief technology officer in President Obama’s 2012 campaign, offered those people what he jokingly called “an intervention.” “Big Data is bullshit,” Mr. Reed […]
The Resilient Higher Ed LMS: Canvas is the only fully-established recent market entry
For a few years starting in 2009, it seemed one of the best ways to raise VC funds or corporate internal investment was to say “we can beat Blackboard with a new cloud-based platform”. Witness Coursekit / Lore, Instructure / Canvas, OpenClass, LoudCloud Systems, Helix, and even more recently MOOC platforms. There were many articles […]
Efficacy, Education, and the Last Mile
I’ve been thinking quite a bit recently about efficacy in education in light of the Pearson realignment. Is efficacy, a medical concept, a good lens through which to view our current educational technology challenges? Michael Feldstein laid out some reasons it might be in his treatment of the shift, but I’d like to expand on […]
Education M&A Activity in 2013: Still growing, but changing
Like it or not, education is an industry, and much of the change we see affecting higher ed and K-12 institutions is driven by investment from the private sector. It can be useful to get a high-level view of the trends in private investments to help understand where private companies (edtech vendors, publishers, for-profit institutions, […]