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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

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Anatomy of an Attack on Reciprocity, Part One: The closest justification for gutting SARA is misleading, at best

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

3 years

Grandpa duty started well, but ...

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Phil Hill

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4 years

Revised Outlook for Higher Ed's Online Response to COVID-19 #MindWiresOnline

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Phil Hill

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4 years

31 years and still going

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Phil Hill

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5 years

With just a little amateur-hour editing of today's Dilbert . . . an ed tech story

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Phil Hill

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2 years

A tale of the convenience and the evil of #BigTech @amazon edition. We recently installed two Amazon smart thermostats to save energy, and last night I noticed they weren't at the programmed temp and red light flashing. 1/

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Phil Hill

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11 months

Stolen from @amichaelberman at #D2LFusion (since he doesn't post here much): the best thing about generative AI is that we don't have to hear about blockchain anymore at conferences.

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Phil Hill

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5 years

Shocked, shocked to hear that big tech hubris-on-steroids didn't pan out - AltSchool's out: Zuckerberg-backed startup that tried to rethink education calls it quits

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

5 years

Consistent message from student panels re online Ed: make it easy to navigate and find materials, and don’t make excuses. *Not* an argument for carbon copy course designs.

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

3 years

back-to-school photo, heading to first on site business meeting in 16 months

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

5 years

Pretty big news in #LMS world - Purdue is moving from Blackboard to D2L Brightspace:

Trustees approve new learning management system contract

Purdue’s Board of Trustees approved on Friday (Aug. 2) an agreement with Desire2Learn (D2L) for its product, Brightspace, to become the university’s next systemwide learning management system.

www.purdue.edu

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

11 months

"Today's online courses are evolved cousins of the early MOOC" Are you kidding me? There are still people in 2023 - edtech reporters even - who think that MOOCs created online learning for the most part.

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

Big LMS win for @D2L Brightspace - to replace NYU Classes (Sakai) after year-long evaluation process and unanimous decision:

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

7 years

Dilbert does an LMS RFP process (ht Larry Cuban for finding old one):

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

Two out of five US college presidents already considering online options for Fall 2020 term -

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

All for avoiding gotcha journalism & finding positive stories, but we need to get more student input on how COVID-remote transition is going. Too many easy interviews w/o asking tougher questions. Too much talking about students instead of talking with students. Myself included.

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

3 years

Huge deal in EdTech world: Ellucian has been acquired by two private equity firms - Blackstone and Vista Equity

Higher Education Technology Company Ellucian to be Acquired by Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners

Blackstone (NYSE: BX) (“Blackstone”) and Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”) today announced that private equity funds managed by those firms have agreed

www.businesswire.com

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

1 year

Chegg $CHGG is down 20+% after hours based on earnings release and apparently on ChatGPT headwinds

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

3 years

Responsible grandparenting

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

3 years

Pretty big LMS news: SUNY awards systemwide contract to D2L Brightspace, replacing Bb Learn. This was one of Blackboard's largest remaining customers (one other being CUNY) w/ 400k students. Expect more analysis later today.

PROVOST’S OFFICE - SUNY Digital Learning Environment

SUNY Digital Learning Environment Work of the SUNY DLE Templates Team culminates in exemplary resources for campuses Two years of collaborative work from the SUNY DLE Templates Creation workgroup,...

dle.suny.edu

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

5 years

1\ Pretty big news about planned merger between McGraw-Hill Education and Cengage Learning, sounding like all-stock (no cash) transaction between roughly equal partners

McGraw-Hill to Merge With Rival Textbook Publisher

McGraw-Hill and Cengage plan to merge in a deal that would create the second-largest provider of college textbooks and other higher-education materials in the country.

www.wsj.com

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

5 years

Read 'em and weep: Consumer advocates accuse college retailers of "preying on students" with costly late fees for rented books. (e.g. $315 late fee on $136 Cengage rental)

Renting College Textbooks Can Be An Even Bigger Ripoff Than Buying Them

And the huge late fees that companies like Amazon, Barnes & Noble College and Follett charge may actually be illegal.

www.huffpost.com

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

"I Will Survive, Coronavirus Teaching" At first I was afraid, I was petrified Kept thinking I could never teach through Canvas all the time But then I spent so nights reading the help docs for so long And I grew strong, I learned how to get along

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

6 years

Canvas Surpasses Blackboard Learn in US Market Share

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

What is it with the competition between IHE and Chronicle to publish half-baked analyses of the online vs. f2f false dichotomy? This author at least spent 4 paragraphs setting up the straw man (B for effort).

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

5 years

Insight into CC Students and Challenges of Online Ed "The big issue that I've seen in the field is not whether a school should offer online classes ...but how well-designed the courses are and how much support is provided outside of the course"

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

2 years

Meanwhile, everything Amazon shut down for us. Amazon, Alexa, smart thermometers. Worst of all - the last season of #BetterCallSaul , which I *paid* for. We own nothing - @amazon does what it wants, however it wants. In the words of the philosopher:

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

This article captures so much of the current dynamics in one place. Massive expected budget cuts, centralization, campus / system coordination, questions of where faculty fit within governance, need to invest in online, etc.

UW System leader calls for academic cuts, layoffs, online advances to survive in post-pandemic world

UW System President Ray Cross said there was no "magic number" he was hoping to reach in terms of cuts or cost savings.

www.jsonline.com

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

6 years

They need to learn sometime

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

10 years

Can we all take a moment to celebrate the death of Java downloads for Collaborate? #BbWorld14

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

2 years

With multiple EdTech earnings calls, it's interesting to note just how much has changed in the past year since Coursera's IPO. Only Pearson has gone up in this group of mostly Higher Ed focused companies. 1/

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

Two out of five US college presidents already considering online options for Fall 2020 term

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

2 years

Yikes - it's bloodbath for 2U stock after yesterday's earnings call. Stock down nearly 48%, market cap is now less than price paid for edX.

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

11 months

Trying to make it through EdSurge article, which has great commentary from Rene Kizilcec, but I can't make it past this paragraph:

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

6 years

Introducing Canvas X for student success prediction and nudging, in experimental mode #InstCon

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

3 years

The huge news of the week: Blackboard and Anthology are merging (I suspect Anthology is acquiring Bb in reality):

Blackboard

@Blackboard

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Announcement: Anthology and Blackboard to Merge, Creating a Leading Global Provider of Education Software and Solutions

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

I think we're supposed to treat this like a fire drill. Put down your laptops, head outside, mill around, make jokes with friends. Have a smoke.

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

1 year

The rumors were true. Pearson, owner of one of the biggest OPM operations in the world, has sold that unit after their strategic review. (h/t @neilmosley5 )

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

1 year

Grand parenting 101

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

3 years

But I really need to get to my tool chest

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

US Higher Ed Set to Go Fully Online in Just Four Weeks Due to COVID-19

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

5 years

The Dangers of Mixing Student Data and Machine Learning Really interesting description of breakdown of machine learning when it comes to human learning - worth a read @onlinecrslady

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

In the battle of guest columnist terrible takes on COVID transition: Chronicle: What a perfect time to measure online ed vs. F2F IHE: Hold my beer

Practical advice for how colleges can responsibly reopen in the fall (opinion)

www.insidehighered.com

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

Would the last college still holding Spring 2020 face2face classes please turn out the lights?

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

2 years

A group of 9 HBCUs, funded largely by foundations ($10m), is working on a new online learning platform / quasi LMS call HBCUv aimed at all HBCUs. Focus is on engagement and social connections. Work led by "an arm of Deloitte Digital called Ethos".

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

5 years

Not sure how I feel about packing for #instcon and not needing any rain gear or contingency plans for weather.

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

Using MS Teams instead of Zoom + Slack + Dropbox is like taking a taxi instead of Uber.

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

You know what would make my day - How about a few more "Our Message / Statement / Commitment during COVID-19" email pushes? Hearing that my "Safety and that of our other Customers and Employees is our top priority" means a lot to me.

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

@steph_moore and @philonedtech : Planning for Resilience, Not Resistance - a response to IHE article #MindWiresOnline

Planning for Resilience, Not Resistance

Stephanie Moore and Phil Hill: Now is not the time for misinformed views of online education and recommendations of simplistic options. #MindWiresOnline

onedtech.philhillaa.com

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

6 years

"After a lengthy review of learning management systems (LMS) that included course pilots and feedback from the ASU community, ASU has decided to move to Canvas."

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

7 years

Waiting for keynote at #instcon

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

5 years

Deeply Flawed GMU Report on Online Education Asks Good Questions But Provides Misguided Analysis

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

3 years

Good, balanced article that captures key changes in online learning:

Many CSU students see big upsides to online learning. Now, there is a push to expand it

COVID-19 forced schools to shift to online learning. At CSU, it's sticking around in what will be a new normal.

www.latimes.com

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

3 years

Doing research for article, came across example of how @SNHU can really mess up your regression analysis on 73 New England colleges and universities

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

In case you were under the illusion that most faculty are learning the basics of online learning, or that IHE is improving in selection of op-eds, I beg to differ.

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

5 years

Kits: Building the NGDLE Outside the LMS This is interesting description from Duke U

Kits: Building the NGDLE Outside the LMS

The ideal academic technology strategy should support the diversity of disciplinary and pedagogical needs.

er.educause.edu

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

5 years

State of Higher Ed LMS Market for US and Canada: 2019 Mid-Year Edition

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

Welcome to Your Hastily Prepared Online College Course - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

5 years

I’m taking reservations for EdTech companies interested in meeting w 2U, Instructure, and Chegg at #ASUGSV2019 re. acquisition. $2,000 each. I won’t be there and have no official role, so willing to go as low as $1,000.

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

5 years

The Misguided Drive to Measure ‘Learning Outcomes’

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

2 years

Amazon Launches Udemy Competitor

Like Udemy, Amazon's new online learning portal allows individuals to directly offer courses online.

www.classcentral.com

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

5 years

Does my daughter know how to pick out picnic spots, or what?

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

5 years

July 30, 2019 - the day the OPM market changed. 30 minutes into 2U ($TWOU) earnings call, stock down 25% in after hours trading. 2U is moving from primarily rev-share grad program OPM business into diversified business including full-university deals, fee-for-service, 1/

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

2 years

Where is the study calculating loss in global productivity due to the 'let's do a one-hour Zoom mtg when it could be a 15-min phone call' disease?

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

2 years

On 2U / edX earnings call ($TWOU), we get yet more insight into the enrollment AND revenue challenges for degree-based business (-7%), and the growth of alternative credentials (+12%).

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

New post co-authored with @steph_moore

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

2 years

Interesting article and interesting initiative, but I hope UNC understands how much hard work is in front of them

UNC system to launch ambitious $97 million ed-tech start-up

www.insidehighered.com

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

1 year

My daughters claim I am 5-years behind in meme usage, a criticism I accept

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

What triggered the recent Quality Matters pushback? Not arguing for or against, just curious why it's become a thing on Twitter lately.

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

1 year

University of Arkansas board votes 5-4 against the acquisition / affiliation with the University of Phoenix

University of Arkansas System board votes against University of Phoenix deal

The vote on the University of Phoenix affiliation is largely symbolic as the University of Arkansas system president can move forward with the acquisition with or without board support.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

This week has already started the wave of restaurant / bar / cafe shutdowns, and the wave of layoffs in many industries. This is going to be painful - I feel awful for so many of the hourly workers that are likely to be hit first. Tip big while you can, order take-out, etc.

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

5 years

Fascinating study by IHE of faculty attitudes on & usage of online, textbooks, LMS Real bright spot is about online experience leading to improved teaching overall

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

It's starting . . .

Cal State Fullerton Announces Plans For A Virtual Fall. Will Other Colleges Follow?

Colleges are grappling with how long the coronavirus disruptions will last and what the fall semester will look like. The big question: With so many changes, will students still enroll?

www.npr.org

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

It's not easy to get a seat in a webinar - wish me luck.

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

The deeper you look, the worse the ProctorU data breach appears. tl;dr - data for 444k students available online from as recent as 2017 (not 2014 as company claims); many US students, not just in Australia. 1/

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

Guest post from @Czernie : What we learnt from “going online” during university shutdowns in South Africa Lessons learned from other sudden shutdowns

What we learnt from “going online” during university shutdowns in South Africa

Laura Czerniewicz: Covid-19 is not the first time rapid shifts online in education have happened. @Czernie The post

onedtech.philhillaa.com

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

3 years

And the winners for biggest #EDU21 vendor booths near the entrance: - Class (what would you do with $164m raised?) - Ellucian - Anthology - Proctorio w honorable mentions to: - Citrix, Extron, Intel, Extron, Blackboard,

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

2 months

I'll miss you Sherman. Thanks for ten wonderful years. RIP

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

2 months

I’m considering offering a $750k seed round in exchange for a bar table #asugsvsummit

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

5 years

Learning analytics in online learning: trying hard but need to do better via @Tony Bates

Learning analytics in online learning: trying hard but need to do better | Tony Bates

www.tonybates.ca

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

Things that are not helpful for health - having a daughter who loves to bake.

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

The price per student for LMS appears to be going up higher than the rate of inflation

Average Price Paid for Learning Management System - LISTedTECH

Check out our post! Average Price Paid for Learning Management System at LISTedTECH.

listedtech.com

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

7 months

Now this is education

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

3 years

Not a deal I was expecting: 2U buying edX from Harvard and MIT for $800m

Harvard and MIT to Sell edX for $800 million | Harvard Magazine

Proceeds from the transaction will fund a nonprofit dedicated to addressing educational inequities.

www.harvardmagazine.com

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

5 years

Aloha

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

That most-used of remote teaching crutches is becoming more problematic. Zoom CEO has acknowledged issues and froze all feature development while they try to fix security / privacy. I would give h/t to Jeanette Wiseman if I knew her Twitter handle.

School districts, including New York City’s, start banning Zoom because of online security issues

Online security issues are growing with the mass rush to virtual education during the coronavirus crisis.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

7 years

I, for one, am disappointed in the early ending for a promising set of memes.

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

I suppose this is a good time to let out the unpopular opinions and experiences (and be able to claim account was hacked). 'An Evening With John Denver' was one of the best albums of the 70's. And I sang backup for Barry Manilow in 1981.

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

#CanvasCon news: Deeper integration between Canvas and MS Teams for "go-to conferencing tool"

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

7 years

Recently found: @united training video

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

2 years

I’ve been at #WCET2022 for an hour; already had 4 great conversations and first general session just started

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

5 years

MOOCs have low completion (5%), small course online offerings (iow NOT MOOCs) have 85+% completion; article lede: "How have instructional designers collectively moved the needle so dramatically on completion rates?" #nailedit

Moving From 5% to 85% Completion Rates for Online Courses - EdSurge News

MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. Industry reports and instructional ...

www.edsurge.com

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

10 months

Why Pearson Is Complicit: I should describe my position in more detail

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

The COVID-Fueled Hybridization of Higher Ed #MindWires

The COVID-Fueled Hybridization of Higher Ed

Ignore the false dichotomy - what we are really seeing is higher ed going hybrid #MindWiresHybrid The post

onedtech.philhillaa.com

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

8 years

Pretty sure this is 4th sign of the Apocalypse

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

3 years

There are more Chronicle and IHE articles / posts on The Chair this morning than there are episodes of The Chair.

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

2 months

Holy crap - ASU+GSV is expected to have 7,500 attendees this year. I'm bringing a pup tent and propane grill to colonize part of the bar area.

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

2 years

Coursera $COUR did well in their earnings call, again due to Consumer and Enterprise business. Their OPM degrees business was down 11% year-over-year.

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

5 years

Crime hits higher ed

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

And we have a new leader in the 'dumbest Covid-19 analysis' category in the Chronicle. Are you kidding me - treating emergency move of f2f online with actual research on effectiveness?

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Phil Hill

@PhilOnEdTech

4 years

At this stage the ASU/GSV summit for end of March is the Monty Python / Black Knight of EDU conferences. Impressive persistence.

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