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6 août 2015

IBM’s Misleading or Just Incorrect National Ad on Student Retention

By Phil Hill. Thanks to Chris Edwards for alerting me to this one. In a nutshell, IBM launched a national ad campaign last month that included commercials during Wimbledon on the weekend. They’re spending big money on this campaign about big data, learning analytics, and reducing “dropout rates”. Read more...

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6 août 2015

Using TAs As Key Component Of Active Learning Transformation at UC Davis

By Phil Hill. Last week I described how UC Davis is making efforts to personalize one of the most impersonal of learning experiences – large lecture introductory science courses. It is telling that the first changes that they made were not to the lecture itself but to the associated discussion sections led by teaching assistants (TAs). Read more...

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6 août 2015

Blackboard’s Messaging Problems

By Michael Feldstein. There are a lot of things that are hard to evaluate from the outside when gauging how a company is doing under new management in the midst of a turnaround with big new products coming out. For example, how good is Ultra, Blackboard’s new user experience? (At least, I think the user experience is what they mean by “Ultra.” Most of the time.) We can look at it from the outside and play around with it for a bit, but the best way to judge it is to talk to a lot of folks who have spent time living with it and delivering courses in it. Read more...

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6 août 2015

Reuters: Blackboard up for sale, seeking up to $3 billion in auction

By Phil Hill. As I was writing a post about Blackboard’s key challenges, I get notice from Reuters (anonymous sources, so interpret accordingly) that the company is on the market, seeking up to $3 billion. Read more...

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6 août 2015

UC Davis: A look inside attempts to make large lecture classes active and personal

By Phil Hill. In my recent keynote for the Online Teaching Conference, the core argument was as follows:

While there will be (significant) unbundling around the edges, the bigger potential impact [of ed innovation] is how existing colleges and universities allow technology-enabled change to enter the mainstream of the academic mission.

Let’s look at one example. Read more...

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6 août 2015

Blackboard Ultra and Other Product and Company Updates

By Michael Feldstein. Phil and I spent much of this past week at BbWorld trying to understand what is going on there. The fact that their next-generation Ultra user experience is a year behind is deservedly getting a lot of attention, so one of our goals going into the conference was to understand why this happened, where the development is now, and how confident we could be in the company’s development promises going forward. Read more...

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6 août 2015

Giving D2L Credit Where Credit Is Due

By Phil Hill. Michael and I have made several specific criticisms of D2L’s marketing claims lately culminating in this blog post about examples based on work at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and California State University at Long Beach (CSULB). Read more...

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6 août 2015

Unizin Updates on Florida State System and Acquisition of Courseload

By Phil Hill. I’m not sure when e-Literate was awarded the exclusive rights for non-PR Unizin coverage, but there were two announcements this week to cover. Read more...

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6 août 2015

Release of University of California at Davis Case Study on e-Literate TV

By Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein. Today we are thrilled to release the fifth and final case study in our new e-Literate TV series on “personalized learning”. In this series, we examine how that term, which is heavily marketed but poorly defined, is implemented on the ground at a variety of colleges and universities. We plan to cap off this series with two analysis episodes looking at themes across the case studies. Read more...

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6 août 2015

Unizin Perspective: Personalized learning’s existence and distance education experience

By Phil Hill. By reading the Unizin pitch for the State University System of Florida shared yesterday, we can see quite a few claims about the (potential) benefits to be provided by the consortium. “Make sure that the universities were not cut out of [distance ed] process”; “Secure our foothold in the digital industry”; “Promote greater control and influence over the digital learning ecosystem”; Provide “access to the Canvas LMS at the Unizin price”; Provide “access to tools under development, including a Learning Object Repository and Learning Analytics”; Provide “potential for cooperative relationships to ‘share’ digital instruction within and across the consortium”. Read more...

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