Update 10/25: Bumped comment from Darryl Yong, a member of the research team, into its own post here. Update 10/26: We now have Rachel Levy and Nancy Lape (who was the researcher interviewed by USA Today) both agreeing with Darryl’s comments. That’s three of the four members of the research team. While I do not claim to understand how the […]
e-Literate TV trailer from EDUCAUSE 2013
Last week Michael announced a new project of ours called e-Literate TV. To recap, the idea is that there are new groups involved in decisions that impact ed tech and online education. Deans, provosts, presidents, boards of trustees, state legislators, and even national media are newly interested in topics with different levels of understanding and different […]
Apereo Foundation Reception at EDUCAUSE Tonight
This is just a quick note on behalf of my friends at the Apereo Foundation to note that their reception will be at 6:30 PM at the Hilton tonight at EDUCAUSE. For some reason, it got left off the program. Details are here. I, unfortunately, will not be able to join, but if you’re interested […]
Differentiated, Personalized & Adaptive Learning: some clarity for EDUCAUSE
Josh Kim wrote three predictions at Inside Higher Ed for the EDUCAUSE 2013 conference, and I particularly agree with the basis of #2: Prediction 2: Adaptive Learning Platforms Will Be the Toast of the Party Everyone will want to talk to Knewton. The ASU / Pearson / Knewton partnership is a huge deal. Knewton has the […]
Announcing e-Literate TV
This week is the week of the big annual EDUCAUSE conference which, among other things, is the world’s largest ed tech fashion show. In the next five days, we will learn that earth tones are the latest style for adaptive personalized learning systems, and that hemlines and license fees are both going way up this […]
The IMS’s New “Caliper” Learning Analytics Interoperability Framework Is Deeply Interesting
The IMS has announced the initial public release of something they call Caliper, which they characterize as a learning analytics interoperability framework. But it’s actually much, much more than that. In fact, it represents the functional core of something that my SUNY colleagues and I used to refer to as a Learning Management Operating System […]
e-Literate and Conflicts of Interest
As you may know, Phil and I started a consulting practice in January. Throughout my years of blogging here, I have made it a practice to update readers on how changes in professional life may affect the writing that I (and now we) do on the blog. I don’t believe there is any such thing […]