Category Archives: Instructional Design

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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The Master Course: A Key Difference in Educational Delivery Methods

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Phil Hill

In part 1 of this series of posts I presented a view of different educational delivery models based on course design and modality. Why does it matter that we describe these educational delivery models with finer granularity than just traditional … Continue reading →

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Classroom Salon: Social Highlighting for Education

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Michael Feldstein

As educational content moves increasingly digital, one of the big pushes is to rethink highlighting and margin notes. On the downside, these capabilities are seen as table stakes. If students can’t do with their digital textbooks what they can already … Continue reading →

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The Emerging Landscape of Educational Delivery Models

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Phil Hill

Part 2 in this series, on a key difference in educational delivery methods, can be found here. Traditional education or online education. In the past decade it seems that the dominant conversation has been around the potential for online learning, … Continue reading →

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