By Alex Usher. The week before last, the Canadian Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) put out a report (available here) on trends on low-paid employment in Canada from 1997 to 2014 (meaning full-time jobs occupied by 20-64 year olds where the hourly earnings are less than 66% of the national median). More...
Changes at D2L: A second-hand view from users conference
College Scorecard: With victories like these, who needs failures?
By Phil Hill. Goldie Blumenstyk had a fascinating interview with the Depart of Education’s Ted Mitchell on Friday that is well worth reading and / or watching (they have video of the interview along with full transcript). One of Mitchell’s key points jumped off the page for me. More...
Marketing Claims From Adaptive Learning Vendors As Barrier To Adoption
By Phil Hill. In Spring 2016, faculty, support staff and administrators at Oregon State University met to candidly share their experiences with adaptive learning technology. I shared two different videos from the event at EdSurge in this article. More...
Coursera: The pivot to corporate learning becomes clear
By Phil Hill. Last week I had a post in the Chronicle titled “MOOCs Are Dead. Long Live Online Higher Education.” triggered by the departure of Daphne Koller from her day-to-day role at Coursera. More...
Quick Update On LMS Subscription Service
By Phil Hill. Our LMS Subscription Service has been out for more than three months now, and we’d like to give a quick update(see this page for details, pricing, online signup; or sign up on right column of blog site for listserv to find out more information). More...
TechCrunch: “EdTech – 2017’s big, untapped and safe investor opportunity”
By Phil Hill. David Bainbridge, CEO of UK-based Knowledgemotion, wrote a post on Saturday in TechCrunch titled “Edtech is the next fintech” calling out the huge, untapped potential of EdTech. Thanks to Alan Levine for sharing this one. More...
Schoology: The strongest LMS you’ve never seen
Instructurecon 2016: Why This Company is Still Formidable (and Misunderstood)
By Michael Feldstein. When I talk to Instructure competitors or critics, I usually hear two complaints about them:
- They “open wash” or are “fauxpen.”
- They have no vision. More...
MoodleMoot US 16: Playing small-ball
By Phil Hill. At the MoodleMoot in late June in Los Angeles, which serves as close to a users conference for the open source Moodle LMS community as any other event, there was a strong sense of continuity and general improvements. More...