In Phil’s last post, in which he explained our data gathering methods for our LMS analysis work, he started with a quote from Moodle leader Martin Dougiamas that suggested our numbers were primarily US-based. Because it captured a common misconception about our data (and was based on a fair question), it was a good launching point for the post. More...
The market data are organized in a dataset that captures system usage on a per higher education institution basis. For most schools, a campus is equivalent to an institution. But there are also cases where there multiple campuses per university (e.g. University of Minnesota system with five campuses, or DeVry University with dozens of campuses) and the LMS decision is made at the system level. In these situations, one decision will lead to multiple institutions listed in the data. More...
Now that we're past the 2017 WCET conference and headed to the EDUCAUSE conference, let's look at updates on the institutional LMS market for North America (US and Canada). Last year we started our LMS market analysis service, where we are working with LISTedTECH to provide market data and visualizations, and our fall report for subscribers will be released in about a month. Data for 2017 presented below goes through October 1 of this year. More...
Strayer has the upper hand in the merger, taking a 52% controlling interest in the new company, which will be called "Strategic Education" and will maintain Strayer's "STRA" stock symbol. With combined enrollments of close to 80,000 students, the new company will be one of the largest for-profits in the US. More...
Netherlands–When Wassim Mahmoud needs help navigating student life in Amsterdam, he turns to Rosa Rietkerk, a Dutch political-science student.
Mahmoud, a 29-year-old Palestinian from Syria, and Rietkerk, 20, met through the Foundation for Refugee Students (known by its Dutch acronym, UAF), a charity that supports refugees in higher education. More...
Two years after Syrians started coming to Germany by the hundreds of thousands, the nation has had decidedly mixed results in integrating the new arrivals into its educational system. Older children are often shut out of learning anything other than German language and culture during their first year, though younger children who quickly learn the language can join their German peers in the classroom. More...
Lebanon's Internal Security Forces and a group at the Lebanese American University here have collaborated in a training program for officers in the country's national police force to improve their response to violence against women. More...
Egyptian researchers are exploring innovative solutions to some aspects of the country’s water-scarcity problem, including projects that seek to make the use of water in agriculture more efficient, to devise affordable ways of desalinating brackish water, and to recycle the “gray water” produced by laundries. But weak public funding for these projects makes it difficult to carry them out. More...
Egyptian researchers are exploring innovative solutions to some aspects of the country’s water-scarcity problem, including projects that seek to make the use of water in agriculture more efficient, to devise affordable ways of desalinating brackish water, and to recycle the “gray water” produced by laundries. But weak public funding for these projects makes it difficult to carry them out. More...
Sounds of excited children beam out of the Qatar Museums Gallery in the Katara cultural village here, as young visitors try their hand at skateboarding on a ramp inside the gallery space.
The specially built ramp is part of a photography exhibition, “Skate Girls of Kabul,” that presents the story of Afghan girls for whom skateboarding is a way of achieving more personal freedom in their country’s conservative society. More...
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