The Burden of Misunderstanding: How ED's outdated consumer-protection view of online education could lead to bureaucratic burden on every online course in US higher ed A follow-up to last week's post.

Saturday view of #wmphoenixopen

15th hole at #WMPhoenixOpen

New post and squid graphic State of Higher Ed LMS Market for US and Canada: Year-End 2024 Edition Less about market share and more about diverging strategy It is remarkable how long this market has dominated by the Big Four - Instructure Canvas, D2L Brightspace, Anthology Blackboard, and Moodle have retained the top four spots in market share (by institution count and by enrollment) for fifteen years in North America. And the only other competitor gaining real share is Populi, which is used amongst very small, mostly-private colleges.

New post by @morganmundum Faculty Uncertainty About AI in Teaching and Learning Reading the Digital Education Council faculty survey and its valuable insights Last year, we covered the insightful report on student use of AI published by the Digital Education Council (DEC). Last month, they followed up with a new report on faculty use. While many surveys explore faculty and student approaches to AI, most cover the same ground and add little to our understanding. The DEC reports stand out, not just in size and scope with 1,681 faculty responses from 52 institutions across 28 countries, but also in their ability to ask thought-provoking questions that address critical issues.

New post by @neilmosley5 UK Higher Education VLE Market: 2024 Review

Friday Follow Up Coursera confirms our reporting, Cal State exemplifies financial challenges, and AI regulatory efforts reset (a bit)

RT @PresidentsForum: Hear insights from @PhilOnEdTech, @Pulsipher_WGU, and @markmilliron on the future of higher ed regulation. https://t…

Anthology Finances in the News Again The owner of the Blackboard LMS skips an interest payment on debt, begins negotiations on changes in debt and ownership structure What I can report is that it appears all three parties - Veritas, first-lien lenders, Anthology - agree on the concept. Lower the total debt in exchange for equity for the lenders, and I hear similar language from my sources. Second-lien lenders are not in the same camp.

Deeper Look at Fall 2023 IPEDS Data, part II This time looking at Exclusive and Some DE enrollments

@itsokcrypto @Sonos I updated the app and it is still unusable. This is crap - I have useless speakers now.

OLC Under Bankruptcy Protection Influential group for online education has to deal with the Gaylord, not debt I checked the US Court System website through Pacer, and it turns out that OLC entered bankruptcy on December 20th. To me, this is significant news, even though OLC will continue to operate while it uses court protection to fix its finances. Such a historically influential higher education organization facing financial challenges.

RT @landryst: About the Petulant Rulemaking - @PhilOnEdTech #highered #economy #regulation "Revenue-sharing mod…

@kennybauf I was pointed in my criticism, which is obviously fair game, but the post is on process and language. It was not defending OPMs.

@kennybauf it is startling the lengths people will go to to frame any criticism of regulatory efforts as a defense of companies / orgs rather than a legitimate criticism of process and policy language

RT @APUSPRteam: We're honored to be ranked among the top 10 largest online universities in the U.S. This latest independent data reaffirms…

About the Petulant Rulemaking ED's OPM guidance about misrepresentation is a mess, but they'll let someone else clean it up ED never took action in the ensuing two years on revenue sharing. None. And then in the last days of the administration, it throws out OPM guidance on a different topic, misrepresentation. There have been plenty of references to the problem of misrepresentation in coalition activities (open letters, lawsuits, media interviews, etc), but the process of determining policy, even without any end result, has been focused on revenue sharing. There has been nothing explicit about misrepresentation. Therefore, there has been zero attempt for ED to lay out a proposed set of rules or guidance and get input from the community on appropriate actions. This is how the third-party servicer (TPS) guidance failed - ED and the coalition thought they knew better than others what was needed, they proposed a ridiculous DCL, and then had to rescind that guidance after massive pushback. The same thing but at a smaller scale is happening now.

There are individual cases that should be taken care of by the department or some other regulator or oversight board. The difference is whether you see this is as a systemic industrywide problem. clearly the department takes that view, and makes it the center of all of their thinking

"In 2023 the Department announced the approval of $72 million in borrower defense to repayment discharges for more than 2,300 students who applied for relief from loans they took out to attend Ashford. The discharge being announced today expands on that relief to cover additional borrowers."