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PIRG's SPARC group filed a brief with the Department of Justice opposing the merger between Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education. The section on data danger is worth a close read. The post The Cengage-MHE Merger and Data Danger appeared first on e-Literate.

The Tsugi project (www.tsugi.org) is providing a software environment to enable a wide range of educational technology use cases. Tsugi was developed to simplify the development of educational tools and to allow those tools to be deployed in an “App ... [More] Store” pattern using standards like IMS Learning Tools Interoperability, Common Cartridge, Deep Linking (Content Item), […] [Less]

In this post, I explore the relationship between learning engineering and learning design, talk about language as a design artifact, and provide an example about how Caliper could be the centerpiece of a learning engineering process for developing ... [More] better learning analytics. The post Learning Engineering: A Caliper Example appeared first on e-Literate. [Less]

Tsugi Tools Update June 20, 2019 Post by: David P. Bauer Team Lead, eLearning Systems & Support Services University of Dayton

One of the challenges facing higher education is a huge amount of tacit knowledge—things that we don't know we know—about both our academic expertise and our teaching expertise. We need to make that knowledge explicit in order to make progress. This ... [More] post unpacks a peculiar kind of literacy problem. The post EEP 2019: The Invisible Miracle of Learning appeared first on e-Literate. [Less]

Open Apereo 2019 - Videos on YouTube July 1, 2019

2019 Board and Officers Election Results June 12, 2019

Eleven months ago, I wrote a post about Instructure entering its "awkward teenage years." That was a setup for the inevitable alternative metaphor that was coming, along with Instructure's inevitable fall from grace. Now that they're off the ... [More] pedestal, it's time to address the crazy way we talk about ed tech companies. The post Instructure is not “the New Blackboard” appeared first on e-Literate. [Less]

The IMS has been amazingly successful. I take a deep dive into both the what and the why, and then look at how the next challenge of learning analytics is going to mean the next decade of interoperability work will be different from the last one. The post The IMS at an Inflection Point appeared first on e-Literate.

e-Literate is changing its URL, its look and feel and, most importantly, is morphing into a much broader organization with multiple functions. This post provides an overview of the new world. The post Understanding the New e-Literate Ecosystem appeared first on e-Literate.