June 29, 2021
Speaking of money-losing higher ed-tech IPOs, Canvas maker Instructure announced its own planned offering on Monday, citing the pandemic boom-times. As part of an acquisition announced in December, Instructure bought a K-12 student-snooping software Videri:...
June 28, 2021
From the detailed March Inside Higher Ed story on Coursera's planned IPO: Although it is still possible to audit many Coursera courses for free, the company has evolved significantly since its early days as a provider of massive open online courses, or MOOCS. The...
June 24, 2021
SPARC North America's Claudio Aspesi, in an April piece in the Commonplace: The core activities of senior academic administrators are threatened by algorithms that could effectively dictate how to increase research productivity, climb rankings, or raise graduation...
June 9, 2021
Missed this great short piece by Dafne Calvo when it ran last May: At present, knowledge runs the risk of being capitalised by investing in proprietary software for analysis; by imposing fees for downloading scientific articles; by making methodological and...
June 3, 2021
I only just read the dueling December posts on the OASPA blog—the first an alarm-puller on the "growing emphasis" on green OA, which the signatories—a diverse lot, indeed—blamed Plan S for fanning (in part owing to its recently announced Rights Retention...
