Making Sense of EdTech

Three Charts That Help Explain the 2U / edX Acquisition

Author Phil Hill June 29, 2021/3 Comments/by Phil Hill

At the risk of a clickbait headline, an attempt to put the acquisition in context #MindWiresOnline

Instructure Files IPO Paperwork to Go Public . . . Again

Author Phil Hill June 28, 2021/4 Comments/by Phil Hill

A PE flip of sorts after big change in profitability #MindWiresLMS

Purdue Global Postscript: About the reduced student support spending

Author Phil Hill June 16, 2021/by Phil Hill

Reducing student support expenses while increasing enrollment and reducing drop rates #MindWiresOPM

The Dance of PE Elephants: Two huge EdTech-related deals this week

Author Phil Hill June 15, 2021/1 Comment/by Phil Hill

First Ellucian, now McGraw-Hill. A lot of private equity money flowing this week.

Purdue Global FY20 Financials Show Online School Getting Closer to Break Even

Author Phil Hill June 7, 2021/7 Comments/by Phil Hill

FY20 $21 million loss explained and improvements expected in FY21 #MindWiresOPM

The Future of Learning Platforms: LMS and Video to Share Top Billing

Author Phil Hill June 4, 2021/by Phil Hill

COVID, LMS, the big four, and Africa. It’s all here.

Calbright College Premortem, Part 2: Better management of flawed assumptions

Blog May 18, 2021/3 Comments/by Phil Hill

A new & improved management team won’t cut it if the underlying assumptions are flawed

Calbright College Premortem, Part 1: Both sides dig in

Blog May 16, 2021/by Phil Hill

Both sides arguing whether to shut down Calbright College or not dig in

Dartmouth Cheating Debacle: 3 Initial Observations

Author Phil Hill May 11, 2021/4 Comments/by Phil Hill

Update 6/11: Dartmouth Medical School’s dean sent out an email yesterday dropping all honor code charges. This was the right decision given the flawed process. Over the past month a story has been developing at Dartmouth College’s Geisel School of Medicine about an alleged cheating scandal, and with the New York Times coverage yesterday, the […]

Spring 2021 Enrollment Update: The flight to heavily online institutions

Author Phil Hill April 29, 2021/by Phil Hill

Worse news than expected unless your institution was already heavily invested in online education

Moodle US: A changing business model that goes beyond the US

Author Phil Hill April 28, 2021/by Phil Hill

M&A, (potentially) closed plug-ins, and an interesting new model #Moodle #LMS

Re-integration: The new phase in Covid response by education

Author Phil Hill April 19, 2021/5 Comments/by Phil Hill

Extending the multi-phase outlook of education’s Covid responses and calling out “re-integration” challenge