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6 août 2015

68% of Statistics Are Meaningless, D2L Edition

By . Two years ago, I wrote about how D2L’s analytics package looked serious and potentially ground-breaking, but that there were serious architectural issues with the underlying platform that were preventing the product from working properly for customers. Since then, we’ve been looking for signs that the company has dealt with these issues and is ready to deliver something interesting and powerful. Read more...

6 août 2015

About The D2L Claim Of BrightSpace LeaP And Academic Improvements

By Phil Hill. Recently I wrote a post checking up on a claim by D2L that seems to imply that their learning platform leads to measurable improvements in academic performance. The genesis of this thread is a panel discussion at the IMS Global conference where I argued that LMS usage in aggregate has not improved academic performance but is important, or even necessary, infrastructure with a critical role. Read more...
6 août 2015

An Example Why LMS Should Not Be Only Part of Learning Ecosystem

By Phil Hill. In Michael’s initial post on the Post-LMS, he built on this central theme:

Reading Phil’s multiple reviews of Competency-Based Education (CBE) “LMSs”, one of the implications that jumps out at me is that we see a much more rapid and coherent progression of learning platform designs if you start with a particular pedagogical approach in mind.

The idea here is not that the traditional LMS has no value (it can be critical infrastructure, particularly for mainstream faculty adoption), but rather that in the future we both see more learning platform designs being tied to specific pedagogies. Read more...
6 août 2015

The EDUCAUSE NGDLE and an API of One’s Own

By . I have been meaning for some time to get around to blogging about the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative’s (ELI’s) paper on a Next-Generation Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE) and Tony Bates’ thoughtful response to it. The core concepts behind the NGDLE are that a next-generation digital learning environment should have the following characteristics. Read more...

6 août 2015

Personalized Learning Changes: Effect on instructors and coaches

By Phil Hill. Kate Bowles left an interesting comment at my previous post about an ASU episode on e-Literate TV, where I argued that there is a profound change in the instructor role. Read more...

6 août 2015

Instructor Replacement vs. Instructor Role Change

By Phil Hill. Two weeks ago I wrote a post about faculty members’ perspective on student-centered pacing within a course. What about the changing role of faculty members – how do their lives change with some of the personalized learning approaches. Read more...

6 août 2015

Moodle Association: New pay-for-play roadmap input for end users

By Phil Hill. Moodle is in the midst of releasing a fairly significant change to the community with a new not-for-profit entity called the Moodle Association. The idea is to get end users more directly involved in setting the product roadmap, as explained by Martin Dougiamas in this discussion thread and in his recent keynotes (the one below from early March in Germany). Read more...

6 août 2015

rSmart to Asahi to Scriba: What is happening to major Sakai partner?

By Phil Hill. It looks like we have another name and ownership change for one of the major Sakai partners, but this time the changes have a very closed feel to them. rSmart, led by Chris Coppola at the time, was one of the original Sakai commercial affiliates, and the LMS portion of the company was eventually sold to Asahi Net International (ANI) in 2013. Read more...

6 août 2015

Pilots? We don’t need no stinkin’ pilots!

By Phil Hill. Timothy Harfield commented on Arizona State University’s approach to pilots and scaling innovation at ASU. Read more...

6 août 2015

NYT Michael Crow Condensed Interview: More Info needed . . . and available

By Phil Hill. The New York Times ran an “edited and condensed” interview with Arizona State University (ASU) president Michael Crow, titled “Reshaping Arizona State, and the Public Model”. Read more...

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