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Digital Courseware Provider Top Hat Gets $130M and a New CEO

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That can be a costly path, warns Phil Hill, an education industry analyst, consultant and writer. But turning the corner—which often entails making cuts to legacy businesses and jobs—has been painful for the likes of Pearson, Cengage, McGraw-Hill and others whose operations have been rooted in print. “It

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Massive Online Courses Find A New Audience With Continuing Medical Education

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The common thread tying these messy transitions together is the move to become new forms of Online Program Management (OPM) providers,” education writer Phil Hill projected last year on his blog, e-Literate. “MOOCs are focused primarily on monetization and moving beyond free and open courses.

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What Does Salesforce Buying Salesforce.org Mean for Higher Education?

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“The CRM market is becoming increasingly important in higher education, and it’s driven by the fact that higher-ed institutions have to behave differently to adapt to the demographic changes of the student population,” says Phil Hill, a writer at e-Literate, an education technology blog and consulting firm.

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?Invasive or Informative? Educators Discuss Pros and Cons of Learning Analytics

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Education writer Phil Hill covered the privacy issue and college objections to it last year: “Faculty assign usage of Piazza, often as required course tool. Students sign up and almost none of them take the step to opt-out (and it is opt-out and not opt-in, as users have to take an action to uncheck the box).

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Kahoot Acquires Clever for $500M, Hoping to Expand Its Presence in the U.S.

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What a deal, from Kahoot’s perspective,” says Phil Hill, an education industry analyst, consultant and writer. It is clearly the “weaker party” in this deal, Hill says. It’s so confusing,” Hill says. The other, perhaps more viable solution to fragmentation, Hill says, is to offer edtech applications as a bundle.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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A couple of years ago, I was part of a year-end webinar with MindWires’ Consulting’s Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein and one or other of them – I don’t remember now – predicted that 2016 would be a big year for the LMS. (Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?).

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Speaking of MOOCs, Phil Hill astutely observed earlier this year that many MOOCs and for-profit companies were altering their products and services so as to become online program management providers: “ If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try To Be An OPM.” Udacity laid off about a quarter of its staff mid-year.

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