Coursera Is Just Not That Into You The new 15% "platform fee" comes on top of de-emphasizing OPM degrees and university content

Can we just admit it at this point? Coursera is doing its part to tell universities what it thinks of the relationship.

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Nexus Playing Both Sides in Anthology's Bankruptcy Phil Hill analyzes how Nexus Capital is simultaneously a controlling creditor in Anthology’s bankruptcy and the backer of Encoura, raising questions about transparency in EdTech private equity.

PE firm Nexus Capital is both a controlling creditor in Anthology's Chapter 11 case and, through its ownership of ACT and Encoura, the backer of one of the stalking horse bidders.

I’ve written more about this in my latest On EdTech post: onedtech.philhillaa.com/p/nexus-play...

This Week in Student Success Of pipelines, failures and futures

@morganmundum.bsky.social has her next post out at the On Student Success newsletter. It's a weekly roundup or interesting report analysis and commentary.

Be sure to sign up!

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The LMS at 30: From Course Management to Learning Management (At Last) Guest post from Matthew Pittinsky, Ph.D.

The academic LMS market just turned 30 years old — and its history explains a lot about why it looks the way it does today and how AI might impact it.

Guest post at On EdTech from Matt Pittinsky, one of the co-founders of Blackboard

Read it here: onedtech.philhillaa.com/p/the-lms-at...

Likewise - looking forward to the convo.

For this Fall 2023 profile, nearly everyone wins, despite the looming demographic declines scheduled to begin in 2025-26 and the ongoing financial crises at colleges and universities. Put another way, this might be the most positive profile we’ll see for quite some time.

Fall 2023 IPEDS Data: Profile of US Higher Ed Online Education A view of the new normal trends with what is likely to be the last of the pandemic recovery

New post - Fall 2023 IPEDS Data: Profile of US Higher Ed Online Education
A view of the new normal trends with what is likely to be the last of the pandemic recovery

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This sounds wonky but is very important - it could have caused a massive new bureaucratic burden for colleges and universities offering online courses and programs. As in, nearly all of them.

And there were other good changes in the final rules notice.

A Victory in Persuasion for Online Attendance The US Department of Education decided to not require attendance-taking for online courses

BREAKING: The US Dept of Ed publishes final rules and was persuaded to not include the onerous attendance-taking requirement for online courses and programs.

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FYI - Jason Horne is the person from ASU+GSV looking to put together the panel we discussed