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If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try To Be An OPM: Conversion of for-profits and MOOCs

By Phil Hill. Posted on March 13, 2018

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Purdue/ Kaplan, Grand Canyon, Ashford U all going “nonprofit”, Coursera focuses on degrees – the common theme of recent for-profit and MOOC news? The OPM market.

68 Percent of Statistics Are Meaningless, Purdue University Edition

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on August 21, 2015

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Purdue University has been happy to take credit for essentially inventing the retention early warning analytics category. But are they willing to take responsibility for putting out a flawed efficacy study? Eh, not so much.

NPR and Missed (Course) Signals

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on July 14, 2014

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Anya Kamenetz has a piece up on NPR about learning analytics, highlighting Purdue’s Course Signals as its centerpiece. She does a good job of introducing the topic to a general audience and raising some relevant ethical questions. But she missed one of the biggest ethical questions surrounding Purdue’s product—namely, that some of its research claims […]

Unizin membership fee is separate from Canvas license fee

By Phil Hill. Posted on June 12, 2014

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With Unizin going public yesterday, I’ve been looking over our three posts at e-Literate to see if there are any corrections or clarifications needed. Unizin: Indiana University’s Secret New “Learning Ecosystem” Coalition Why Unizin is a Threat to edX Unizin: What are the Primary Risks? Based on yesterday’s press release, official web site release and […]

Unizin: What are the primary risks?

By Phil Hill. Posted on May 29, 2014

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In Michael’s most recent post on Unizin, the new “learning ecosystem” initiative driven by Indiana University, he asked the question of who would be threatened by the proposed consortium (with the answer of edX). This question assumes of course that Unizin actually succeeds in large part, but what are the primary risks for the initiative […]

Unizin: Indiana University’s Secret New “Learning Ecosystem” Coalition

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on May 16, 2014

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Indiana University has been the driving force behind the creation of a new organization to develop a “learning ecosystem”. At least ten schools are being quietly asked to contribute $1 million each over a three-year period to join the consortium. The details of what that $1 million buys are unclear at this point. The centerpiece for the […]

Purdue University Has an Ethics Problem

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on November 25, 2013

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It’s fair to say that Purdue University has sparked several important conversations in ed tech through their work on Course Signals. First, they pretty much put the retention early warning system as a product category on the map, conducting ground-breaking research and building a system that several major ed tech players have either licensed or […]
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