There is a lot of blame to go around, including in some unexpected places.
There’s a Layer in Between Learning Content and Learning Analytics
This post explores an important aspiration of the collaboration between CMU OLI and ASU ETX on building a new courseware platform.
This Week’s Blursday Social: The CMU/ASU Courseware Platform Collaboration
Happy not-2020 anymore! In celebration of the slightly-less-awfulness, we are restarting Blursday Socials with a bang. You may have been following my blog post series on the collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University’s OLI group and ASU’s ETX group on a next-generation courseware platform. (It’s actually a lot more than that, but that’s a good place […]
A Courseware Platform for Expressing Pedagogical Intent
This is an overview of the collaboration between ASU’s ETX Center and CMU’s OLI to build a next-generation courseware platform.
Good vs. Great Product Teams
Allowing teams to do their work is the hard part. Michael and I do a fair bit of work on topics like product-market fit and validating clients’ product and market strategies. We recently completed work with a company that I would characterize as a good exemplar of a “great” product team. In fact, during one […]
The Netflix of Education, ad nauseum
To get the model right, we need to inspect the value chain more closely. It’s been a COVID- and US national politics-blurred couple of months since I last posted here. Much has transpired in those months and it’s clear that nothing in education and EdTech will be the same as it was, and yet we […]
Next Blursday Social (12/10): Filling EdTech Potholes with ReThink Education’s Matt Greenfield
Welp, it’s been a year, hasn’t it? Everybody, including the EdTech-averse, has had to go all-in on EdTech all at once. And it’s exposed some potholes. Some we knew were there, others we learned to live with and forgot about, and still others we didn’t see coming. Now is a good time to think about […]

