By Michael Feldstein. A few weeks back, I had the pleasure of attending the IMS Learning Impact Leadership Institute (LILI). For those of you who aren't familiar with it, IMS is the major learning application technical interoperability organization for higher education and K12 (and is making some forays into the corporate training and development world as well). More...
Building a Better Vendor Ecosystem
By Michael Feldstein. Vendors are always trying to get me to write good things about them. They know my word is valuable because people believe I will write good things about vendors if and only if I think they are true. By definition, I can't take their money to write good things about them. More...
Understanding the New e-Literate Ecosystem
By Michael Feldstein. You'll notice that the e-Literate web site has gotten a redesign and that we've switched URLs to http://eliterate.us. (Please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds.) You will also notice that there is a new "Get Help (Services)" menu item at the top of the page. More...
Major Changes at e-Literate and MindWires
By Michael Feldstein. We’ve had great fun together and hopefully done a little good in the world, but we each need to be doing different things at the moment. Phil will be keeping MindWires as well as the LMS Market Analysis subscription service. He will be forking to his new blog home at http://PhilOnEdTech.com, but all historical posts will remain at e-Literate. He will continue to cover ed tech and online / hybrid education market trends in general, and basically all the stuff that you’re used to reading about from him. More...
Instructure is not “the New Blackboard”
By Michael Feldstein. Yesterday, I wrote about my experiences at the recent IMS Learning Impact Leadership Institute. Today, I'm going to write about a sentence that I heard uttered several times while at that summit. One that I've been expecting to hear for nearly a year now. More...
3 ways we’re improving student retention
What is one of the most critical components of a tuition-dependent university’s bottom line? Student retention. With many institutions grappling with competitive admissions and declining enrollments, retaining students has never been more essential than it is today. More...
Digital credentials need more transparency
A partnership between two groups aims to advance new interoperability and transparency standards for digital credentials and institutional data systems. More...
5 things to say to students suffering from anxiety
If we really want to support our students’ social and emotional health, we must learn about their fears, struggles, and idiosyncrasies. More...
Startup raises $6M to help colleges re-enroll ‘stop-outs’
ReUp Education, a company solely focused on helping colleges to re-enroll students who have “stopped out” of higher education, today announced the closing of a $6 million Series A funding round. More...
Ensuring success for community college students
For generations, community colleges have been the unsung heroes of the higher education system, the engines of social and economic mobility in our country. This broad network of colleges, which attracts more than 40 percent of first-time college-goers, provides open access to college for low-income students, rural students, first-generation students, parenting students, working students, and returning veterans. More...