By Ian Roark - EvoLLLution. As with any topic that involves dichotomous views in an environment of change, the discussion of whether or not higher education institutions should treat students as customers engenders controversy and strong opinions on either side of the issue. Both sides have valid points that are rooted in theory and research. More...
By Esther Prins - EvoLLLution. The first challenge is perhaps the most obvious and that is physical access due to geographic isolation. In Pennsylvania, where our study focused, higher education institutions are not evenly distributed across the state. As you might imagine, they’re most concentrated in urban areas. This is especially the case with community colleges. Those tend to be located around the periphery of the state and the more rural areas tend to get overlooked by that. More...
By Maureen MacDonald - EvoLLLution. I periodically hear continuing education (CE) administrators and programmers lamenting the fact that they are on the fringes of the university rather than being a part of the institutional “core”. In some institutions, this may be the reality. However, there are a number of arguments — pro and con — surrounding the positioning of a continuing education unit at the margins of traditional university activities and structures. More...
By Phil Hill - EvoLLLution. In both industries, we’re in the heyday of technology-driven changes; a lot of people are looking for dramatic changes to come from the technology in both industries. Related to that, there’s been an increasing amount of investment capital coming from venture capital firms and private equity. It doesn’t mean the changes are going to stick, but a lot of this is driven by investment and the hype going on right now. More...
By . Chapter 5 of my open textbook, ‘Teaching in a Digital Age‘, is now published. In Chapter 5, I developed the concept of a learning environment.
By Audrey Watters. Teaching is, according to the subtitle of education journalist Dana Goldstein’s new book, “America’s Most Embattled Profession.” “No other profession,” she argues, ”operates under this level of political scrutiny, not even those, like policing or social work, that are also tasked with public welfare and are paid for with public funds.” More...
By Audrey Watters. Coursera is pursuing MOOCs-on-demand.
Coursera has partnered with Brazilian universities the University of São Paulo and the State University of Campinas.
edX is relicensing some of its open source software, moving from the AGPL to the Apache license. The latter allows for more commercial and even proprietary software development. Because open. More...
By Cathy Davidson. Contrary to all those books and op eds decrying the dismal intransigence of higher education and college professors in general, I am finishing an essay (this is an excerpt) and writing a new book on the future of higher education (to be published about 15 months from now by Basic Books--I have to write it first, everyone!!) that makes the exact opposite counter arugment. More...
By Phil Hill. In yesterday’s post I described where I (and many others) see the LMS market heading in terms of interoperability.
At the same time, the LMS does a very poor job at providing a lot of the learning technologies desired by faculty and students. There is no way that a monolithic LMS can keep up with the market – it cannot match functionality of open internet tools especially without adding feature bloat. More...
By Phil Hill. Within higher education, we tend to talk about LMS solutions based on an institutional perspective – which systems can serve as the official LMS for an entire institution. While this view is important and forms the basis for my LMS graphics, the emergence of new educational delivery models has led to the development of some interesting program-specific LMS models. One example that I have already written about is 2U’s platform (built on top of Moodle and Adobe Connect) for their specific Online Service Provider (OSP) business. More...
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