Mark Drechsler has a fascinating post in response to my recent LMS as minivan about D2L’s retention claims, mostly playing off of this theme: I answered another question by saying that the LMS, with multiple billions invested over 17+ years, has not “moved the needle” on improving educational results. I see the value in providing a […]
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About Those D2L Claims of LMS Usage Increasing Retention Rates
In my post last week on the IMS Global Consortium conference #LILI15, I suggested that LMS usage in aggregate has not improved academic performance and noted that John Baker from D2L disagreed. John Baker from D2L disagreed on this subject, and he listed off internal data of 25% or more (I can’t remember detail) improved […]
Great Breakdown of Issues for Higher Ed Distance Learning
Despite its imposingly academic title (“Four Families of Multi-variant Issues in Graduate-level Asynchronous Online Courses”) this article provides an accessible and pragmatic breakdown of problems confronting the development and evaulation of higher ed distance learning programs. There are too many good insights in the article to list here, so I’ll just give one as a […]