Interview with Dr. Thomas Waite, CEO of K16 Solutions. K16's Scaffold Designer is the industry’s first cloud-hosted, fully-integrated course development tool that automates manual processes and improves efficiency for instructional designers and faculty. Scaffold products are integrated with Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace, and Sakai. We discuss:
Background of Dr. Waite and history of K16 Solutions
Scaffold Designer and Scaffold Migration
Migrate or rebuild courses
Migration tool for most LMSs
Customers including K12 and OPMs (Online Program Management Companies)
Working in elearning ecosystems as opposed to LMSs
AI, machine learning and algorithms
New Scaffold Faculties, a faculty management system
This special audio podcast is a recording of a Panel Discussion at the USciences eLearning 3.0 Conference on Tuesday, May 14, 2019, at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. Our Keynote speaker, Phil Hill, was the moderator. The Panel consists of Kenneth Chapman (D2L), Ryan McDonald (Blackboard), and Ben Moriarty (Strut Learning). You will hear reference to Glisser, the tool we use to solicit audience questions.
These questions were asked:
What will be the most different about the LMS in 5 years?
What will not change in the LMS after 5 years?
Will the instructional designer be more important than the instructor?
What hasn't worked regarding the effort to have data inform the LMS experience?
What about the "dark underbelly" of data, privacy, and misuse of data?
What hasn't worked with student personalization, and what will the future bring?
Do the needs of accreditation conflict with student personalization?
What will be the impact of blockchain, voice control, and machine learning?
What are the biggest hurdles to adopting a new LMS?
How do you deal with shortened student attention span?
This is a special audio and video podcast of Phil Hill's Keynote, entitled The Future of Learning Platforms. Phil Hill is Publisher of the PhilOnEdTech Blog and Partner at MindWires, LLC. As a market analyst, Phil has analyzed the growth of technology-enabled change for educational institutions. Phil gave this Keynote at the USciences eLearning 3.0 Conference on Tuesday, May 14, 2019, at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. Phil discusses:
LMS market share
Watch on Youtube
LMS as a walled garden
The chasm between visionaries and pragmatists
Transformation of MOOCs
New platform designs
Moving beyond the digitization of traditional classrooms
Interview with Lori Anderson, VP of Technical Product Management at McGraw Hill. We discuss ALEKS (Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces) a web-based, AI assessment, and learning system focused on math and chemistry. ALEKS uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine what a student knows and doesn't know in a course. ALEKS then instructs the student on the topics she is most ready to learn.
