Open Source LMSs Facts and Insight
One of the areas that always gain interest and usage are open source systems, that is to say, free open source code (some are not), to which any organization, company, educational setting, government and so forth can build their own system (often noted as home-grown) and do what they wish with it. The usual arguments…
Quarter 1 Funding For E-Learning 2019
If you have been Rip Van Winkle then you are unlikely to be aware of that enormous amount of funds that have been raised in 2018 and early 2019. The numbers can be and are quite staggering. Most folks would assume that every vendor (in order to do X) are seeking funding, but that just…
Musings from BETT 2020: what’s in it for the higher education sector?
Author: Tom Rees-Davies, Educational Partnerships at FutureLearnWhat do robotic puppies, a double decker bus, and renowned Ted Talker Sugata Mitra all have in common? In the absence of an actual punchline, you may be unsurprised to hear that they were all star attractions at the recent BETT 2020 exhibition (‘star’ doing a lot of work on…
Embrace Training in ED and HigherEd
I’m sure it happens to you. There you are at work, when you ask yourself, how would Plato handle it? What would Peter the Great do in this situation with your missing lunch, that was there just an hour ago waving at you in the fridge? Perhaps in the next few weeks you will visit…
Scenario Based Learning, The Time is NOW
It’s An Amazing Course..it is an awful course Right now, someone is looking at the same course as you on Coursera or Udemy. They are either thinking this is great or this is garbage. And guess, what you are thinking the same thing. Wow! This is great. OR Wow, this is awful and I bought…
Job Readiness Marketplace: A new strategy for Skills and learning technology
There are two parts to this story. First, EdTech stands for educational technology, which refers to online learning in higher education and K-12/primary education. It has never meant to represent corporate, despite vendors and some of my fellow analysts thinking otherwise. Secondly, vendors in the EdTech sector (and there are those who play corporate too)…
Real-World Transformation of Higher Education through Skills-Based and AI Literacy
Remote Learner. On a scale of one to 10, where one is the worst word you can come up with to describe online learning in the education sector, aka EdTech, and 10 is where the word you should have used to describe it, education, and I’m looking at you, colleges and universities, scored a one.…
Educator spotlight: Challenging borders of entrepreneurship and collaboration
From the start of the Demystifying Entrepreneurship course — part of an appropriately innovative degree venture — the cross-national team of educators from Deakin and Coventry Universities challenge learners, encouraging them to reconsider their assumptions about entrepreneurship and what it means to be an entrepreneur. With the city of Coventry in the background of the…
EdTech and Skills
I’ve heard from a couple of vendors who play in the EdTech market (defined as K-12 and higher education), that believe skills, specifically skills capabilities can be successful at the higher education sector. It’s a novel approach, actually interesting, in one way, but it comes with assumptions, and if anyone who has studied the EdTech…
The future for education technology in schools: reflections on the Westminster Education Forum policy conference
Author: Isabel Drury, Partnership ManagerAccording to UNESCO, more than 1.5 billion students and 63 million primary and secondary teachers have been affected by the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. Meanwhile in the UK, the Office for the Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecast that the education sector would be the hardest hit sector by the…
