Making Sense of EdTech

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

K-12 EdTech Provider PowerSchool Files SEC Paperwork for Initial Public Offering

Author Phil Hill April 7, 2021/by Phil Hill

Hot on the heels of Coursera’s successful IPO last week, which saw the company jump to a $5.9 billion market cap, and confirming February rumors, K-12 EdTech solutions provider PowerSchool filed an S-1 prospectus late yesterday with the SEC for its IPO. Like Coursera, PowerSchool is filing as an “emerging growth company”, which reduces the […]

Coursera’s IPO: Putting the company’s market cap in perspective

Author Phil Hill March 31, 2021/1 Comment/by Phil Hill

Coursera goes big on first day as publicly-traded company #MindWiresOnline

Moodle’s Dispute with LTG and its Growing Suite of Former Moodle Partners

Author Phil Hill March 11, 2021/2 Comments/by Phil Hill

Two weeks ago the long-simmering dispute between Moodle HQ and Learning Technologies Group (LTG), owner of three former Moodle Partners, reached its end point. The short description is that Moodle HQ has terminated the Moodle Partner contracts of eCreators and eThink, two companies acquired by LTG over the past year, and has also decided that […]

NSC: Community College switching issue does not apply to Fall 2020 enrollment reporting

Author Phil Hill March 9, 2021/by Phil Hill

Most of community college enrollment decline due to categorization, not student loss

Majority of Reported Community College Enrollment Declines Due to Sector Changes

Author Phil Hill March 7, 2021/2 Comments/by Phil Hill

Most of community college enrollment decline due to categorization, not student loss

IPEDS Fall 2019: Largest Institutions by Online Enrollments In US With Trends Since 2012

Author Phil Hill March 4, 2021/2 Comments/by Phil Hill

The biggest schools by pre-pandemic online enrollment

US Higher Education Enrollment Trends by Distance Education Type, 2012-2019

Author Phil Hill March 3, 2021/2 Comments/by Phil Hill

Growing online education in US, with trend analysis 2012 – 2019

Fall 2019 IPEDS Data: Final Pre-Pandemic Profile of US Higher Ed Online Education

Author Phil Hill February 28, 2021/by Phil Hill

New IPEDS data, new online ed profile with consistent but slowing trends

The Rise of Inclusive Access: Digging into recent data on Higher Ed course materials

Author Phil Hill February 25, 2021/by Phil Hill

The rise of IA may be new, but it’s already a major trend for course materials

Google Classroom as an LMS: The company ups the ante in education

Author Phil Hill February 18, 2021/2 Comments/by Phil Hill

Classroom isn’t Google Wave – this time there’s commitment behind the product. #MindWiresLMS

RNL Acquisition of Helix Education: The OPM story

Author Phil Hill February 16, 2021/2 Comments/by Phil Hill

Recent M&A represents an expansion of the OPM market
#MindWiresOPM