DREL Project Definition Report
The IEEE Learning Technologies Subcommittee (LTSC) Digital Rights Expression Language (DREL) group has just released an update on its public website. The PDF document is somewhat dry but contains the seeds of a looming conflict. More...

Social Finance pilot projects: Interim report
Kelsey Brennan, Brian Carriere, Sheila Currie, Shek-wai Hui, Boris Palameta, Sopcial Research and Demonstration Corporation, 2018/06/01
Social Impact Bonds (SIB) in education is a concept "whereby private investors pay up front for training and are repaid by the government if the training is successful in achieving pre-established outcomes." This report (92 page PDF) is an interim report on some SIB projects. More...

Progress report for Educational and Occupational Credentials in schema.org

Phil Barker, Sharing and learning, 2018/05/24

I've been watching a lot of discussion about this on the mailing lists and so think of this as a snapshot rather than the final word. More...

Commission on Creating the Next in Education (CNE)
Office of the Provost, Georgia Tech, 2018/05/11
This report "is an effort to draw with broad strokes the nature of education that defines the technological research university of the year 2040 and beyond." The core outcome, I think, is in the initiatives section (here are the links, because the page deign obscures them: Whole-Person Education, New Products and Services, Advising for a New Era, A.I. and Personalization, A Distributed Worldwide Presence). More...