Clearly this has been a tremendous year of growth for Twitter.

Current valuation estimates of the company are in the order of $1 billion, and users are expected to reach 250 million over the next few years. A an eLearning provider, on a daily basis, we are talking to schools that looking at using it both for themselves as well as possibly having their students use it in some fashion.

Campus Technology recently reported,… Continue

David Leonhardt of the New York Times recently wrote an eye opening article entitled "Colleges are Failing in Graduation Rates." The full article can be found online at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/business/economy/09leonhardt.html?_r=1&ref=education.

He mentions that at the University of Massachusetts, only 33% of freshmen graduate within 6 years. It's an extreme, b… Continue

Blended Learning as a concept is widely used in the academic, corporate and non profit sectors throughout the world. We're seeing a great deal of change in it's utilization, and in my blog today, I'll try to highlight some of the changes.

Historically, as Margaret Driscoll pointed out in her paper for IBM Global Services "Blended Learning: Let's Get Beyond the Hype" when institutions consider blending learning they are considering four slightly different scenarios.

* To combine or mix modes of… Continue

We are rolling out Moodle this year to replace Blackboard. I am frantically trying to get up to speed to lead a faculty training this week. In posting, I am asking faculty to go through the trouble of posting in such a way that their posts will be pushed to the Gradebook. (In the past, many faculty have just uploaded Word files with a full week's worth of homework assignments.) Now, I am attempting to "train" them to primarily use the "Add activity/Offline activity" and "Add activity/Advanced Up… Continue

Wednesday, Aug. 9, the New York Times published an article based on a 12 year study comprehensive study on online education at all levels (K-12, college and adult continuing education programs of all kinds) was recently published. The study encompassed 99 quantitative studies comparing online and instructor lead courses.

Conclusion - online education beats the classroom.

In the article, reporter Steve Lohr states:
"Until fairly recently, online education amounted to little more than… Continue