Category Archives: Guest Bloggers

The Search for Differentiated and Engaging Student Experience

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Phil Hill

One of the trends I highlighted last summer was that the LMS or learning platform market was overlapping the educational content market. The lines are blurring between content delivery systems (e.g. Cengage MindTap, Pearson MyLabs, etc) and LMS.  Content delivery … Continue reading →

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What is a Learning Platform?

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Phil Hill

While I have written (along with others) about the shift we are seeing in the LMS market, where it is moving from an enterprise LMS market to a learning platform market, there has not really been a good definition of what … Continue reading →

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MOOCs: Two Different Approaches to Scale, Access and Experimentation

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Phil Hill

In part 1 of this series, I described a new landscape of educational delivery models. In part 2 I described the master course concept and how it presents a cultural barrier that most traditional institutions cannot cross, at least without … Continue reading →

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Online Learning, Startups, and Detective Fiction

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Rob Reynolds

It’s always fun to remember those moments when a magic trick of some sort is explained to us. This happened to me several decades ago in, of all places, a course on Literary Theory, in which revealed the basic conceit … Continue reading →

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Summary of Statements by Key Players in Blackboard Announcement, Including Competitors

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Phil Hill

Given all the news and discussion surrounding Blackboard’s strategy change last week, I thought that it would be useful to collect the public statements from Blackboard and their competitors in one place. No analysis, no interviews, just statements. I have … Continue reading →

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