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The Cengage-MHE Merger and Data Danger

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on August 27, 2019

PIRG’s SPARC group filed a brief with the Department of Justice opposing the merger between Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education. The section on data danger is worth a close read.

Vendor Roles in Fostering Educational Literacies

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on November 23, 2016

In my last post, I talked about the need for educators in general and faculty in particular to develop literacy around data and analytics. But it’s really broader than that. Back when college was intended for a relatively small percentage of the population, the idea of “weeding out” students who couldn’t make it without help was not obviously out of alignment with its mission.

Teaching Using Adaptive Learning

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on November 6, 2016

The entire six-part interview series with McGraw-Hill Education’s adaptive learning experts is now up on YouTube. (Full disclosure: In the months between the filming and the publication of these videos, McGraw-Hill became a client of MindWires.) Here’s a good segment on teaching: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSqoc6Y_4No) The first example Matt Haldeman gives is a math class, which is where we […]

McGraw-Hill Education’s Perspective on Adaptive Learning

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on October 24, 2016

Last spring, I had the opportunity to interview some of the top folks on McGraw-Hill Education’s (MHE’s) digital team to get their view on adaptive learning. Between ALEKS, LearnSmart, and SmartBooks, they have the developed the most well articulated adaptive strategy of any of the big publishers, under the leadership of Chief Digital Officer Stephen Laster. […]

The Great Unbundling of Textbook Publishers

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on October 22, 2016

When we hear the phrase “unbundling” in education, it usually refers to one of two things. Either it’s about unbundling the university into component parts like separating courses from certification or it’s about unbundling content from textbooks or courses into discrete learning objects. On the spectrum from “figment of the imagination” to “the one and […]

Pop Quiz

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on April 20, 2016

Which CEO has recently said or done all of the following: Suggested to an audience of VCs and ed tech entrepreneurs at the GSV conference that the importance of big data in education has been overstated Told that same audience that the biggest gains from adaptive learning come when it is wrapped in good pedagogy […]

The Massive Decline In Larger Education Company Market Caps

By Phil Hill. Posted on January 14, 2016

After our coverage of Blackboard’s CEO change last week, we were both interviewed by the Washington Business Journal, with the following lede: Analysts and sources I spoke with Monday, both on and off the record, said the decision to bring on Bill Ballhaus as CEO was a combination of Bhatt failing to make progress building […]

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