Two weeks ago I wrote a post about faculty members’ perspective on student-centered pacing within a course. What about the changing role of faculty members – how do their lives change with some of the personalized learning approaches?
Moodle Association: New pay-for-play roadmap input for end users
As long as we’re on the subject of changes to open source LMS models . . . Moodle is in the midst of releasing a fairly significant change to the community with a new not-for-profit entity called the Moodle Association. The idea is to get end users more directly involved in setting the product roadmap, […]
rSmart to Asahi to Scriba: What is happening to major Sakai partner?
It looks like we have another name and ownership change for one of the major Sakai partners, but this time the changes have a very closed feel to them. rSmart, led by Chris Coppola at the time, was one of the original Sakai commercial affiliates, and the LMS portion of the company was eventually sold to […]
Pilots? We don’t need no stinkin’ pilots!
Timothy Harfield commented on Arizona State University’s approach to pilots and scaling innovation at ASU. .@philonedtech excellent comment on the problem of scaling innovation in #HigherEd. This is a central concern for @UIAinnovation. — Timothy Harfield (@timothyharfield) June 4, 2015 excellent comment on the problem of scaling innovation in #HigherEd. This is a central concern […]
NYT Michael Crow Condensed Interview: More Info needed . . . and available
The New York Times ran an “edited and condensed” interview with Arizona State University (ASU) president Michael Crow, titled “Reshaping Arizona State, and the Public Model”. Michael M. Crow sees Arizona State as the model of a public research university that measures itself by inclusivity, not exclusivity. In his 13 years as its president, he […]
Release of ASU Case Study on e-Literate TV
Today we are thrilled to release the third case study in our new e-Literate TV series on “personalized learning”. In this series, we examine how that term, which is heavily marketed but poorly defined, is implemented on the ground at a variety of colleges and universities. We are adding three episodes from Arizona State University (ASU), a school […]
UF Online and Enrollment Warning Signs
The University of Florida Online (UF Online) program is one of the highest profile online initiatives to be started over the past few years (alongside other public institution programs such as California’s Online Education Initiative, OpenSUNY, Cal State Online, and Georgia Tech / Udacity). UF Online, which I first described in this blog post, is an […]