mandate the use of "learning management systems."

our CIO said that sure he could put some money to a pilot that did something like this

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(I would add that the message, “Hey, it’s no big deal to us if we lose some adopters” is not a great one for members of the community who feel like their needs are not being met.)

What should Moodle’s course of action be?

Capterra notes that an average school spends an average of $30,000 to $50,000 per year just on paper, but reusable tech would completely eliminate that cost.

In 2015, 24 percent of the oil we used was imported, but we get more of that from Canada than from all the OPEC countries combined.

In the end, your assessment of Trump’s chances comes down to the same consideration as with a falling stock: How sound are the fundamentals? Is Trump the equivalent of a beleaguered blue-chip that still has lots of hard assets?

Interactive whiteboards were all the rage in ed tech purchases several years ago, costing schools millions of dollars but gaining little in the classroom.

frame the purposes and value of education in purely economic terms

often private companies whose technologies power the systems universities use for predictive analytics and adaptive courseware

necessary to spot students at risk of dropping out or to improve teaching through so-called adaptive-learning courseware

If an organization works — and extracting billions of dollars in federal student aid money suggests ITT worked for a long time — then who it most frequently and efficiently works best for is one way to understand the organization.

a fundamental flaw in combining all things labeled LMS as a single market

The news on the self-paced e-learning industry is so bad, Ambient Insight will no longer publish commercial syndicated reports on the industry

E-learning systems revenues in the United States and China are expected to drop by more than $6 billion annually, according to a new study. 

experts are using learning analytics to try to lower the number of drop-outs

"At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment,"

one iteration from success!

there’s only a fine line between “WordPress in Higher Education” and “WordPress in the Enterprise”.

learning revolution

education technology has become about control, surveillance, and data extraction

improving teaching, not amplifying learning.

meaningful learning never requires technology

From an academic perspective, “explainer” is almost inevitably a misnomer for a two-minute animation aimed at a mass audience. 

people really don't want to criticize this, because it is a humanitarian effort, a nonprofit effort and to criticize it is a little bit stupid, actually.

To date Teaching in a Digital Age has been downloaded 13,679 times since its publication in April this year and is also available in print

In 2014, U.S. based education technology (EdTech) companies raised $1.2 billion in funding across 357 venture rounds.

Bitcoin is not intended to be an investment and has always been advertised pretty accurately: as an experimental currency which you shouldn’t buy more of than you can afford to lose

don’t invest what you can’t afford to lose

the financial crisis convinced him that national currencies were vulnerable to politics and bad decision-making

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very, very small snack foods. --Geraldine A. Ferraro

sovereign source identity

Silicon Valley is not going to make us magically smarter about teaching.

Even the course itself is an arbitrary unit size.