Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Improvement in post secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community-based research activity. Earlier this year I also published an open source implementation of RISE in the Journal of Open Source Software. Simon , 1986). The faculty Lumen work with carry an enormous workload.

OER 122

OER Outcomes Analysis Assessment 122

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 14, 2016

Dallas-based LoudCloud’s platforms include a competency-based courseware platform, a learning-analytics platform and services, an eReading product, and a learning management system. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Udemy 40

Udemy Blackboard Company Facebook 40

Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Tip Tap Tap Learning Analytics. Gamification for Learning. TTT platform was designed to provide modalities of interaction complementary alongside effective pedagogies, curriculums and existing tools such as paper, to enhance students’ development of literacy, tracing, and tactile learning. Leveraging Learning Analytics.

Learning Analytics 40

Learning Analytics Gamification Assessment Industry 40

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

A range of specialist companies and private institutions is now providing excellent higher education components, as well as providing ancillary and support services such as examination and certification services, learning support, learning analytics, etc. but less likely to engage the software to create lessons.

Secondary 300

Secondary LMS E-rate Dropout 300

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites.

Technology 63

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 63

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Although sometimes talked about as a “movement,” Mozilla’s Open Badges Project was really more of a technical specification, one that was transferred from Mozilla to IMS Global Learning Consortium in 2017. And “free” doesn’t last. Without revenue the company will go away.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145