The details are not yet worked out, and Oakley is pulling together a group to advise on the options available to make this directive a reality, with the recommendations due in November. Oakley’s comments clearly establish access for nontraditional students to be the ultimate driver. More...
Recommended Reading: Fear of Looking Stupid
Inside Higher Ed has summarized some findings of a study by Carnegie Mellon University anthropologist Lauren Herckis about why faculty hesitate to try new teaching practices. More...
MOOCs Now Focused on Paid Certificates and OPM Market
Writing in EdSurge, Dhawal Shah from Class Central describes the mostly-complete transformation of the large MOOC providers – Coursera, Udacity, edX, FutureLearn – away from lifelong learners and towards paid certificates and a form of Online Program Management for Master’s degrees. No one still claims that MOOCs will disrupt the university as previously hyped. More...
Follow-Up From Future Trends Forum Discussion On Learning Platforms
Last Thursday I participated in a Future Trends Forum, hosted on the Shindig platform, with host Bryan Alexander on the topic of “What’s next with the LMS?”. I have to admit this was one of the best virtual discussions I’ve had, and more than half of the session was driven by audience questions. You can check out the Twitter discussion, Storified , or listen to an audio recording of the whole session, thanks to Roxanne Riskin. More...
Future Trends Forum on Thursday
On Thursday, June 29th at 2pm EDT I will be participating in a Future Trends Forum discussion with Bryan Alexander. The topic will be the LMS Market and the future of learning platforms. The Future Trends Forum uses the Shindig platform and is designed to allow active conversations and not just Bryan interviewing his guests. More...
Academic LMS Market Share: A view across four global regions
In much of our coverage of the LMS market as well as media stories, there is a natural tendency to focus on change. Institution x abandons LMS y and adopts LMS z. In our recent post on Moodle, I described the trajectory of Moodle, noting that “the data seem to indicate a collapse of Moodle selections in the US and Canada, and potentially a significant slow-down in other regions”. More...
Setting a Standard for Explanations in Learning Science and Ed Tech
First of all, I love what this says in general about the relationship between teaching and academic work. My high school English teacher Mrs. Galighani used to say, “If you’re not writing clearly, then you’re not thinking clearly.” Feynman takes this to the next level. If you can’t explain your research clearly to a smart novice in a manageable amount of time—say, the amount of time you have in a single lecture period—then maybe you don’t fully understand what you’re talking about. More...
Welcome to the Refreshed e-Literate
We’ve just released a refresh of the web site that is the first of what will be periodic updates. Don’t expect anything too flashy, though. We’re old-fashioned; we believe that the content makes or breaks the site. So we’ve deliberately kept the web design simple and content-focused. More...
First Board Meeting For Kaplan / Purdue University: Tuition Levels Set
Last week was the first meeting for the board of trustees for NewU, the working name for Kaplan University now that it has been “acquired” by Purdue University. And yes, the scare quotes are intentional given the $1 purchase price. I’ll give the group high marks for transparency by the press release. More...
Whither Moodle?
On e-Literate and even more so with our LMS market analysis service, we have called out many times the broad dominance of Moodle in terms of active installations worldwide. In every region outside of North America (US and Canada), Moodle has largest market share by far, and it is second place in North America. More...