Cengage seems both serious and honest in their ongoing attempts to understand the growing role of OER in the curricular materials market, but they are still climbing the learning curve.
Recommended Reading: The Power of Explaining to Others
A think piece on thinking from Mike Caulfield. You read him regularly like we do, right?
Clarifications On UC Berkeley’s Accessibility Decision To Restrict Video Access
The news headlines sounded terrible. The truth is more complicated.
Recommended Reading: CBE platforms represent a truly niche market
Triggered by the news that we broke here at e-Literate that “Ellucian Stops Support for Brainstorm, its CBE platform”, Carl Straumsheim at Inside Higher Ed has a valuable follow-up article today looking more broadly at the CBE platform market. In “Finding a Niche in a Niche Market”, Carl interviews chief product and strategy officer at Ellucian, […]
Recommended Reading: Signs of Restraint in the Analytics Hype Machine
Mike Sharkey’s recent post on the Blackboard blog site, “Analytics isn’t a thing,” triggered by an epiphany he had while reading the latest NMC Horizon Report, suggests that we might finally be seeing a maturation in the much-hyped analytics space. Rather than viewing analytics as a product category in and of itself, Mike concludes that […]
Why Ed Tech Will Fail to Transform Education (for Now)
The push to solve education’s problems through providing better tech is a little like trying to invent the pharmaceutical industry in absence of a modern medical profession. In this post, we imagine what that might have looked like. (Spoiler alert: It wouldn’t have worked.)
Recommended Reading: IHE coverage of NBER paper and critiques
Two good pieces in Inside Higher Ed look into Caroline Hoxby’s controversial NBER report. Neither of them is vindicating.