BbWorld Report: Blackboard May Be Turning Around
Michael Feldstein, e-Literate, 2017/08/15
This long post makes the case that Blackboard may be turning around but the more interesting reading is the analysis of the market that sees virtually all new implementations in the Canada-USA higher education space being either Instructure's Canvas or Desire2Learn's Brightspace. More...

Techno-News Blog. Taking just one more course per term can increase persistence toward graduation for some students, according to a new report from Civitas Learning. More...

Techno-News Blog. People researching education technology and learning science — cyberlearning — populate the landscape. A new report from the Center for Innovative Research in Cyberlearning has undertaken the ambitious project of sifting through what those researchers are exploring to uncover the major trends and help us understand where education — pre-K-12 and post-secondary — may be headed over the next decade or two. More...

Drive to get children back to school failing worldwide
Rebecca Ratcliffe, The Guardian, 2017/06/23
This article reports on a UNESCO position paper (16 page PDF) asserting that the number of children not in school is remaining steady. More...

Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision For Prioritizing Wellbeing With Artificial Intelligence And Autonomous Systems, Version 1
Ieee, 2017/06/14
This report (138 page PDF) was released last December and a second version is now in process for release in late 2017. Here's the blurb from the website. More...