Blog Educpros de Gilbert Azoulay. Dans un contexte économique favorisant les grands monopoles et le chacun pour soi, la Blockchain a de grandes chances d’inverser radicalement la tendance et nous faire basculer dans l’ère de l’intelligence collective. Plus...
Free mLearning eBook: Mobilizing and supporting educator practice #mLearning
By Inge Ignatia de Waard. At the mLearn2017 in Cyprus, a free and useful eBook was launched by the International Association for Mobile Learning (IAmLearn). It is a free book entitled 'Mobilizing and supporting educator practice', edited by top mLearning experts (Robert Power, Mohamed Ally, Dean Cristol and Agnieszka Palalas) and as such available to all. They even have a download button (tucked away in the table of contents tab) where you can download the free book as a PDF, right here. More...
Big Changes at Unizin: CEO and COO resign after board meeting
Three and a half years after its formation, Unizin is facing its biggest challenge. Now that the consortium is dealing with contract renewals (membership based on three-year agreements), and now that it is a standalone organization and not wrapped under Internet2, Unizin will face the future without its top management. More...
Fear and Loathing in the Moodle Community
Moodle News responded to our recent coverage regarding the platform’s declining market share by pushing back hard with an article that simultaneously insinuates bias on our part and attempts to use our numbers to draw the opposite conclusions from the ones that we have put forward. This presented us with something of a dilemma. More...
How and Why the IMS Failed with LTI 2.0
While at EDUCAUSE last week, we heard from several sources that the IMS is walking away from LTI 2.0. I’m not sure what term the organization is using to characterize what they’re doing; there’s nothing on the public web site that I can find at the moment. More...
State of Higher Ed LMS Market for US and Canada: Fall 2017 Edition
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...
Top 5 ways small colleges can save money with tech
Budgetary restrictions and cutbacks are making life harder at small colleges across the nation. In fact, “about a third of small private colleges rated by Moody’s generated operating deficits in the 2016 fiscal year, an increase from 20 percent in 2013,” noted Inside Higher Ed. “In contrast, just 13 percent of large comprehensive universities posted operating deficits in 2016, down from 20 percent three years before.” More...
Company launches first video CMS specifically for higher education
Higher education video platform, Echo360, announced the launch of a new video content management system (CMS) for higher education. Designed to reflect the multiplicity of video needs on campus, from lecture capture to screencasting, flipped classrooms to video libraries, Echo360’s CMS is integrated into a single, smart video platform that works the way faculty and students do and integrates tightly with existing systems, including the campus-wide LMS. More...
New learner analytics software helps 15 percent more students earn degrees
A UK education technology business recently hit US colleges and universities after a three-year trial of its pioneering analysis and monitoring software. The pilot project, at Nottingham Trent University in the UK, has demonstrated marked improvements in students’ academic performance, with over 15 per cent more of their students now achieving top class degrees. More...
Hundreds of colleges and universities to offer students more value for their course materials
Cengage, an education and technology company, continues to partner with hundreds of colleges and universities across the US to offer students more value for their course materials. The model, called Cengage Inclusive Access, can save students up to 55 percent and ensures they have access to digital course materials on the first day of class. More...