Two months ago I wrote a post about Governor Brown's directive for a fully-online community college in California. More...
29 octobre 2017
29 octobre 2017
InstructureCon 2017: Culture as a competitive weapon
In our recent coverage of BbWorld and D2L Fusion, Michael and I came away impressed. Both companies are improving and doing so in ways showing them listening to customers, empathizing, and developing product enhancements with more engaging user experiences. More...
29 octobre 2017
BbWorld Report: Blackboard May Be Turning Around
We've written similar headlines after past BbWorlds only to be disappointed, so it's prudent to be cautious. We also need to be clear on what "turning around" does and does not mean. That said, this time feels different. More...
29 octobre 2017
The Giant Inflatable Trump Chicken of Ed Tech
Not too long ago, Phil sent me a link to an article in The Atlantic about how an obsession with maximizing clicks through analytics "broke" The New Republic.
By the way, I know where you probably think I'm going with this already, and it's a reasonable direction to take, but it's not the one I'm going to take. More...
29 octobre 2017
LMS Revival: D2L picking up new customers and showing they can listen
D2L the company and Brightspace the company's LMS are undergoing something of a revival in the past year. It's not as if they have dropped in terms of market share - in fact the have a history of strong client retention, losing few customers - but the early 2010's did not lead to rapid customer growth as they had expected after raising two rounds of a combined $165 million in 2012 and 2014. If you read that second post you'll find that I stated that their growth claims "defied logic" at the time. More...
29 octobre 2017
A Nation Searches for Teachers
BANGUI, Central African Republic—War made Emma Mbathas a teacher.
Four years ago, armed members of the Muslim militia called Ex-Seleka attacked the 31-year-old courthouse worker’s village of Molangue, a village south of the capital, Bangui. More...
29 octobre 2017
Foundation Gives Young Lebanese Designers a Boost
The sophisticated fashion sense one sees on the streets of the Lebanese capital is one of the country’s assets—and some talented young people in Lebanon are finding ways to make a career out of it, with the help of a social enterprise called the Starch Foundation. More...
29 octobre 2017
Studying Medicine in Time of War
It was September 2011 when Hasan Raad was admitted to the medical school at Al-Baath University in Homs, Syria.
The city was at the center of the uprising that led to Syria’s continuing civil war, and conditions there were already starting to deteriorate, as violence flared between government troops and armed opponents. The university, next to the Baba Amr neighborhood, one of the most affected parts of the city, kept classes going, but had to make accommodations for the many students who found it difficult to attend. More...
29 octobre 2017
Jordan’s Decision to Shake Up University Admissions Stirs Controversy
Students and their families here have long been unhappy with the importance placed on a single, pass-fail high-school exit exam that determines who gets into a university and what they can study. More...
29 octobre 2017
The Researcher Who Wants to Tidy the Web
A visitor wouldn’t know it from his humble office, but Joe Tekli, a computer engineer at the Lebanese American University’s campus in Byblos, has lofty aims for his research career. He wants to tidy up the entire online world, making it a more logical and efficient place. More...
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