Blackboard has purchased the leading open-source learning management system support organizations: Moodlerooms and NetSpot. Why am I not surprised?
New Journal: Journal of Learning Spaces
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro campus just launched the Journal of Learning Spaces with support of the University Libraries. First off, it’s great to see a university library system hosting their own open access journals and, secondly, the interdisciplinary focus of the publication, I think, will allow for some pretty interesting intersections of topics: [...]
Learning Analytics in Four to Five Years
According to the always engaging and usually accurate annual Horizon Report put out by the New Media Consortium, learning analytics should be expected in four to five years: Learning analytics promises to harness the power of advances in data mining, interpretation, and modeling to improve understandings of teaching and learning, and to tailor education to individual [...]