For a couple of years now, we’ve been saying that higher education is at the beginning stages of a long transition from a philosophical commitment to student success toward an operational commitment to it. In other words, colleges and universities are beginning to grapple in earnest with how to rewire themselves so that their culture […]
Notes on EDUCAUSE 2018
I recently finished three weeks of travel to ed tech conferences – Online Learning in Toronto, WCET in Portland, and EDUCAUSE in Denver. Given the size of EDUCAUSE and its history of being the place to see the greatest number of vendors in one location, that conference is a good trigger to cover general ed […]
Instructure Announces a New CEO
Ch-ch-ch-changes!
The Moodle/Blackboard Breakup: The Long and the Short of It
The most important questions will remain unanswered for some time to come.
Climbing the Ladder of Empirical Education
A theory of change for higher education.
Ed Tech Cybersecurity: Suppose they gave a data breach and nobody came
It has now been four weeks since Chegg announced a data breach compromising personal information of up to 40 million users. Cue the crickets because the only coverage in ed tech press thus far is from EdWeek, which focuses on the K-12 market. That’s a shame, because if ed tech companies want a case study […]
North American Higher Ed LMS Market Share by Enrollments: A consolidating market
How many students on LMS? Let us count the ways.