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25 août 2018

Some new perspectives on the 2018 A level results: STEM gap remains but decline in foreign languages exaggerated

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There has been much hand-wringing in the press about the demise of MFL at A level. However, when we aggregate MFL subjects (French, German, Irish, Other Modern Languages, Welsh, Spanish), and look at their share of total entries, which at least partially deals with population changes, a different picture emerges.
In fact, MFL’s popularity has remained remarkably steady and the much-publicised declines in French and German are being compensated by rises in popularity of other languages such as Mandarin. Entries for Chinese Languages at 3,334 (+3.1%) are now higher than for German (3,058) and perhaps warrant a separate data set in next year’s JCQ tables. More...

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25 août 2018

Some headlines on university entry from A-Level results day

The UCAS data published this morning gives a useful guide to trends in undergraduate entry to higher education – roughly 80% of the 2018 entry cohort is captured so, although it is imperfect, it is meaningful. More...

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25 août 2018

Fixing our biggest skills gap: New report calls on universities to reverse the collapse in technical education

The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) is today publishing a new paper, Filling in the biggest skills gap: Increasing learning at Levels 4 and 5, on reviving the layers of education that lie between school-leaving exams and full honours degrees, where employers say they face the biggest skills gaps. More...

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25 août 2018

Do demographics determine destiny? They can in learning analytics…

Demographics in higher education are important. Analysis of demographics can:

identify disparity in academic achievement
support targeted provision of inclusive and positive action for those less privileged and
track demographic changes in student populations, aiding institutional planning. More...

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25 août 2018

D2L Fusion 2018: Product improvements and potential signs of addressing challenges

By Phil Hill and O'Neal Spicer. This year’s D2L Fusion conference in Houston carved out a space somewhere between the carnival atmosphere of InstructureCon in Keystone and the subdued feel of BbWorld in Orlando. More...

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25 août 2018

Response to MoodleNews: Some considerations for critical reading of market sizing claims

By Phil Hill. There is an interesting post at MoodleNews titled "Open Source LMS Alive And Well: Moodle Breaks World Higher Ed Records, Tops North America, Grows Everywhere" looking at some of our recent LMS market data, focusing primarily on what the data reveal about open source systems such as Moodle, Sakai, Claroline, and Chamilo. More...

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25 août 2018

Schoology, NEO, Claroline, Chamilo: The beginning of the LMS long tail

By Phil Hill. We have described how the global LMS market is converging in the sense that the Big Four - Moodle, Blackboard, Instructure, and D2L - end up being the primary competitors in more and more global regions, often with similar dynamics. We have also described Sakai and its decline in some detail. But what about the next level down? Let's consider four LMS solutions that are still quite active but with fewer institutional users than Sakai - Schoology (whom we have described before), NEO, Claroline, and Chamilo. More...

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25 août 2018

Welcome Change: OpenStax using more accurate data on student textbook expenditures

By Phil Hill. Last week OpenStax, the Rice University-based publisher of open educational resource (OER) materials, announced that according to their data more than 2.2 million students at 48% of colleges in the US and 1,150 outside the US are using OpenStax free textbooks, saving an estimated $177 million. More...

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25 août 2018

Instructure Enters those Awkward Teenage Years

By Michael Feldstein. I've written about how Instructure has, by our count, tied and (very) slightly surpassed Blackboard in US market share. Blackboard didn't love that story. You know who else didn't love it. More...

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25 août 2018

A New University, Born in the Chaos of War

Having beat formidable odds, a university that was started by the Kurdish-led local administration in the northeastern region of Syria will begin its third academic year this fall. More...

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