Category Archives: Higher Education

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 Machine Learning Good For?

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Michael Feldstein

A few weeks ago, Audrey Watters wrote a great piece on her concerns about robo-grading of essays. (I tend to take a lot of inspiration from the things that annoy Audrey, in part because they usually annoy me too.) Here’s … Continue reading →

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What Are Ed Tech Entrepreneurs Good For?

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Michael Feldstein

The recent ASU Education Innovation Summit, which brought together venture capitalists with aspiring ed tech entrepreneurs, created quite a stir in the edublogosphere and the edutwitterverse. A lot of the reaction came from people who were watching from a distance … 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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Upcoming WCET Webcast: “Why the RFP Process Doesn’t Work in Today’s LMS Market”

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Phil Hill

I have written several articles (posted here at e-Literate, here at the Delta Initiative website, and as a guest post at WCET) about the significant changes that the LMS market is undergoing, moving from an enterprise-class, mini-ERP, system to a … Continue reading →

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