[ed. Cydney Jones is a junior at UC Davis, and she was kind enough to share information and insights during my coverage of the UC Davis LMS outage (their Sakai-based LMS is branded as SmartSite and hosted by Scriba). I asked her if she could write a post giving a student’s inside view of the situation. […]
Update on UC Davis LMS Fiasco: Finishing the term with two partial systems
After the LMS outage that started May 20th – covered here, here, and here at e-Literate – UC Davis has finished its spring academic term as of June 9th using two partial systems, one for faculty and one for students and neither of which is fully functional. In other words, UC Davis never fully recovered its […]
Adaptive Learning Fails to Make the Grade. Or Does It?!
More than anything else, SRI’s meta-analysis of adaptive learning studies shows that we won’t be able to prove what works until we start designing better and more consistent studies.
Sakai Is Probably Healthier Than You Think
These days, most people don’t hear much about Sakai, and when they do, it’s usually bad news. Most recently there was the horrible outage at UC Davis and some other Sakai schools using a support vendor called Scriba. Before that, the last thing you may have heard was the departure of Sakai founders such as Indiana […]
Online Program Management: A view of the market landscape
We’re trying to get a better handle on the messy market of so-called “Online Program Management” vendors. This is our first cut. We could use your help improving it.
SRI’s Study on Gates Personalized Learning Grants Is Out
This is almost old news now, but we just haven’t been able to dig into it yet. As part of its Adaptive Learning Market Acceleration Program (ALMAP) program, the Gates Foundation funded SRI to do a study of the results of the grants after two years. I hope to finally clear some time to parse through […]
UC Davis, Sakai, and Open Source
Phil has been a busy boy, putting out two pieces about some Blackboard research that had gotten some negative responses and two more on a horrifically bad LMS outage for UC Davis and other universities using support vendor Scriba. Our main schtick here at e-Literate is to get beyond the headlines. We try to explain what is actually happening and why it is […]