Commonwealth Commitment, a year-old state tuition assistance program, makes it somewhat easier for community college students to earn a four-year degree. But that a mere 100 students took advantage of the pilot program since spring of 2016 suggests that in its current form, its reach has been limited. More...
Roosevelt Island, the skinny, two-mile-long strip of land between Manhattan and Queens in the East River, has been home to a prison, a lunatic asylum, a smallpox hospital and a workhouse, among other institutions. More...
InsideTrack announced today a Master Enabling Agreement (MEA) with the California State University (CSU) that provides the university’s 23 campuses access to a broad range of InsideTrack recruitment and retention services proven to enhance student outcomes. More...
Announced in January 2017, Georgia Institute of Technology’s Online Master of Science in Analytics is the Institute’s second at-scale degree following the groundbreaking Online Master of Science in Computer Science. More...
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos last week announced plans to replace the Title IX guidelines implemented by the Obama administration in 2011 with a new policy that does more to protect the rights of everyone — not just victims, she said. More...
The Impact of Computer-Based Testing on Student Attitudes and Behavior
This article describes the development of a proctored computer-based testing facility used to administer tests outside of regular class hours, thus freeing class hours for instruction. A cynic would suggest that this serves mostly to increase the number of hours in a class, thus creating class hours. No matter. More...
Promoting Learning with Personalized Newsletters
There is a lot to like in the learning model adopted by NCR Corporation and described in this article. The good bit starts about a third of the way through with a description of the "MyNCRU Personal Learning News" email newsletter. A sample newsletter is provided as a link in the article; it is well worth following. More...
The Evolving Role of Course Management System Providers in the Transformation of Education: An Interview with Blackboard's Matthew Pittinsky
The title describes the content. Blackboard's strategy in a nutshell: "I think the next big leap is from CMS to OS. Systems like Blackboard will be viewed as platforms that unite a wide range of academic technologies that traditionally have been fragmented... I view course management systems as operating systems for education because I believe that their value lies as much in the standardized user interface and open architecture for third-party developers as it does in the particular tools with which they ship." From a business point of view, this is a good strategy. More...
Knowledge Environment for Web-based Learning (KEWL): An Open Source Learning Management System Suited for the Developing World
With recent price increases in LMS software, there has been a lot of talk about open source alternatives. This article describes one such, Knowledge Environment for Web-based Learning (KEWL). More...
The Bazaar Online Conference System: Athabasca University's Alternative to Proprietary Online Course Delivery Platforms
I had the opportunity last week to tour the entire Bazaar conferencing system described in this article. I like it a lot. What Bazaar is not is a content management system - it is designed to facilitate communication, not information transfer. That said, it contains many of the administrative and tracking tools found in more expensive LMSs. More...
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