the sky’s the limit for companies that place consumer consent at the center of their digital marketing strategy

in many ways, Law 25 is the most stringent of the three regimes

Les grands gagnants seront les entreprises qui auront su placer le consentement du consommateur au centre de leur stratégie digitale.

This is the story of two companies, each driven by enlightened self-interest, that screwed up a mutual effort to preserve access to free educational resources with a gob-smacking level of tone-deafness.

In the end, universities live off of being exclusive.

“As a representative of Course Hero, I would say, try to get your university to not block us anymore. That would be great,” Morris says, later clarifying that that was a joke.

many of their parents are still paying back their student loans.

"We are fully committed to providing affordable, high-quality learning solutions for students," Joyner said. "We are excited to think openly and collaboratively with key partners like OpenStax to ensure that we, and our authors, are able to reach as many students as possible in new and highly accessible ways."

We don’t expect National Defence or health care to promote growth: we just accept that territorial integrity and a healthy populace are good things.

Le centre de services scolaire de Montréal gère 187 écoles qui accueillent plus de 110 000 élèves.

En France, quand on parle de ressources gratuites, la première réaction est souvent : mais ça l’est déjà !

pourquoi les instances publiques exercent un vrai soutien pour l’accès libre aux publications scientifiques et pas de soutien du même ordre pour les REL

En France, le chiffre d’affaires net de l’édition scolaire représente 388 millions d’euros par an

will music tech be able to compete as lockdowns gradually end

about all music tech companies seeking venture funding for growth using subscriptions

a subscription to Reason, to Lumi, to iZotope stuff, to Adobe Creative Suite… these are not all created equal

There’s a gap between “we want SaaS to work because that’d be good for us as investors” and “SaaS is proving to be a solid investment with real consumers.”

how music in general stacks up to competition from all the other things you can do with your time and money

It goes without saying that venture finance at the moment absolutely adores subscription models.

without a financial filing since 2019

pre-pack (pre-packaged) insolvency

Luminary is talking about pushing its subscription-based software business.

headcount at ROLI was at some point up to 250 people

pretax losses of £34.1 million on revenues of £11.4 million

most enduring names in the music tech business in fact have pursued very conservative, gradual growth

the marketplace wasn’t big enough given our venture trajectory

But on the other hand, it was clear ROLI was burning investment money in pursuit of a growth strategy that seemed potentially unrealistic to an outside observer.

this could be a cautionary tale for “hypergrowth” in music making

“They have to decide whether to eat or pay for the book, whether to pay rent or pay for the book. It’s a one-time cost, but it has multiple implications of students sacrificing utilities, for example, and then putting their housing at risk.”

So earlier this year, I learnt my whole career was based on a lie. As one does.

A recent Cengage survey (publication forthcoming)

Michael Hansen is the Chief Executive Officer of Cengage, an education technology company serving millions of learners worldwide.

The fact that students think their own degrees are still valuable but believe higher education is generally "not worth the cost" suggests a pricing problem -- that even if the degrees are valuable, students think they're paying too much for it.

when presented with a more general statement -- "higher education is not worth the cost to students anymore" -- nearly two-thirds agreed, up from just under half in the first such survey last August.

"SAT itself is not a racist instrument."

As many have noted, edX was losing money every year.

One reason universities may be well situated to be stewards of this program? They are versed in retention strategies, regularly deployed to make sure students stay on track to graduation, Twilley said

All of which means my courses this academic year are covering a lot less material than they normally would.

a remarkable 26% have produced just a single episode

mandate the use of "learning management systems."

our CIO said that sure he could put some money to a pilot that did something like this

This site is run by Instructure.

(I would add that the message, “Hey, it’s no big deal to us if we lose some adopters” is not a great one for members of the community who feel like their needs are not being met.)

What should Moodle’s course of action be?

Capterra notes that an average school spends an average of $30,000 to $50,000 per year just on paper, but reusable tech would completely eliminate that cost.

In 2015, 24 percent of the oil we used was imported, but we get more of that from Canada than from all the OPEC countries combined.

In the end, your assessment of Trump’s chances comes down to the same consideration as with a falling stock: How sound are the fundamentals? Is Trump the equivalent of a beleaguered blue-chip that still has lots of hard assets?

Interactive whiteboards were all the rage in ed tech purchases several years ago, costing schools millions of dollars but gaining little in the classroom.

frame the purposes and value of education in purely economic terms

often private companies whose technologies power the systems universities use for predictive analytics and adaptive courseware

necessary to spot students at risk of dropping out or to improve teaching through so-called adaptive-learning courseware

If an organization works — and extracting billions of dollars in federal student aid money suggests ITT worked for a long time — then who it most frequently and efficiently works best for is one way to understand the organization.

a fundamental flaw in combining all things labeled LMS as a single market

The news on the self-paced e-learning industry is so bad, Ambient Insight will no longer publish commercial syndicated reports on the industry

E-learning systems revenues in the United States and China are expected to drop by more than $6 billion annually, according to a new study. 

experts are using learning analytics to try to lower the number of drop-outs

"At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment,"

one iteration from success!

there’s only a fine line between “WordPress in Higher Education” and “WordPress in the Enterprise”.

learning revolution

education technology has become about control, surveillance, and data extraction

improving teaching, not amplifying learning.

meaningful learning never requires technology

From an academic perspective, “explainer” is almost inevitably a misnomer for a two-minute animation aimed at a mass audience. 

people really don't want to criticize this, because it is a humanitarian effort, a nonprofit effort and to criticize it is a little bit stupid, actually.

To date Teaching in a Digital Age has been downloaded 13,679 times since its publication in April this year and is also available in print

In 2014, U.S. based education technology (EdTech) companies raised $1.2 billion in funding across 357 venture rounds.

Bitcoin is not intended to be an investment and has always been advertised pretty accurately: as an experimental currency which you shouldn’t buy more of than you can afford to lose

don’t invest what you can’t afford to lose

the financial crisis convinced him that national currencies were vulnerable to politics and bad decision-making

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very, very small snack foods. --Geraldine A. Ferraro

sovereign source identity

Silicon Valley is not going to make us magically smarter about teaching.

Even the course itself is an arbitrary unit size.