Research-Based Interventions vs. Product Management

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I wrote a series of posts in the fall about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s work in postsecondary education centered on digital courseware, challenging their claims of following the data. You can read the first post about the messaging machine, the second on the push for CourseGateway, the third laying out our history 2013 – 2018 […]

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State of Higher Ed LMS Market for US and Canada: Year-End 2022 Edition

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State of Higher Ed LMS Market for US and Canada: Year-End 2022 Edition #MindWiresLMS

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Gates Foundation Response to Posts on Courseware Evidence

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I wrote a series of posts in the fall about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s work in postsecondary education centered on digital courseware, challenging their claims of following the data. You can read the first post about the messaging machine, the second on the push for CourseGateway, and the third on a research background […]

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Clarifications But No Answers on Growing Discrepancy in Enrollment Reporting

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Last week I noted a growing discrepancy between the US higher education enrollment reporting between National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) and the Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). The issue is not that there is a discrepancy – different data methods after all – but that is a growing discrepancy. I had the […]

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Fall 2021 Largest Institutions by Total Enrollment and DE Type

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Based on reader request after yesterday’s post, I’d like to share another view of largest US higher education institutions, this one ranked by total enrollment with color coding of distance education (DE) type. This chart combines undergrad and grad student enrollments. [full-page audio link] To get a sense of how much higher education has changed […]

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IPEDS Fall 2021: Largest Institutions by Online Enrollments In US With Trends Since 2012

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After the IPEDS Fall 2021 data came out in late December, I noticed a large and growing discrepancy between the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) and IPEDS about the size of the enrollment declines. I have been in contact with NSC, and the deeper I look into that situation, the more that I think we have […]

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Discrepancy in Reported US Higher Ed Fall Enrollment Declines

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With the release of the Fall 2021 enrollment data from the US Department of Education’s IPEDS system, I had planned a post showing a comparison of three commonly-used data sources to help provide context, but as I looked further there seems to be a significant discrepancy between the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) enrollment reports and […]

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Fall 2021 IPEDS Data: Profile of US Higher Ed Online Education

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New IPEDS data showing pandemic-driven acceleration of online education

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Drivers for EdTech Market Valuation Changes

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My post two days ago sharing the radically changing world of public EdTech company valuations got more attention than expected – when I mostly wanted an updated pretty picture and an excuse to share AI audio options for the blog. One small update to that post: I was reminded that I should have Keypath added […]

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EdTech Financial Market Update

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Before we get into the topic of today’s post, I’d like to point out that I have resumed the creation of audio options for PhilOnEdTech blog posts. Previously I did so by creating new podcast episodes, but that proved to be too time-consuming. I am now testing out a new AI-based service from Audyo that […]

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