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Why Is This One Education Stock Taking Off? James Marshall Crotty Contributor As of 12:30 PM EST Monday, Archipelago (NASDAQ:ARCL), a subscription-based provider of education software-as-a-service, was up 22% in extremely high volume. Against a backdrop of tiring broader indexes and a malaise in other education stocks, all of which are far off their 52-week [...]

MIT launches free online ‘fully automated’ course By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the world’s top-rated universities, has announced its first free course which can be studied and assessed completely online. An electronics course, beginning in March, will be the first prototype of an online project, known [...]

Solving Problems, Navigating Change, Fostering Education Innovation. Learning is our most enduring activity. Throughout our lives, as we go to school, learn to play a musical instrument, master a discipline or enhance our professional skills, we’re all perpetual students. Continuing education and lifelong learning are critical for success in the ‘flat’ world of the 21st [...]

Ok, so the campus LMS market is in transition. Blackboard’s announced plans to retire its legacy LMS applications is a major catalyst for this transition: upwards of 700 Blackboard LMS clients, primary but not exclusively colleges and universities, confront “up or out” decisions regarding their current campus implementations of retiring Angel, WebCT, and other older Blackboard-branded LMS applications.

Although eTextbook adoption in higher education is slower that some might anticipate, growth is steady. A recent Pew Research report indicated the eReader ownership doubled this past holiday season. Apple’s recent announcement about its entry into digital textbooks and self-publishing and its goal to provide a “a new textbook experience” provides a new surge in momentum toward the mainstreaming of eTextbooks. What impact will broader adoption of eTextbooks have on your campus? For students? For faculty?

India Based LoudCloud Systems, providers of the LoudCloud Learning Management Ecosystems for Higher Education and K12, believes that “One Size Does Not Fit All” when it comes to providing solutions faced by 21st century administrators, educators and learners. Supported by two new technologies, the Adaptive Reader Technology (ART) and the Behavioral Analytics Reporting System (BARS), LoudCloud’s Learning Management Ecosystems are fully adaptive and can be configured to meet specific academic and technology needs of today’s institutions, universities, and schools for a personalized learning and teaching experience.

Oracle said Thursday that it was acquiring Taleo, an on-demand talent management software company, for US$1.9B. Taleo is a competitor to SuccessFactors, which happened to be acquired by Oracle rival SAP.

Datatel and SunGard Higher Education have combined businesses and are now one company focused exclusively on serving global education. The strategic combination brings together two education industry specialists into one company with increased breadth and scale to meet the needs of institutions worldwide

In 2012, higher education institutions will look to improve the learning experience through analytics and personalized learning environments, while reducing costs with digital resources and cloud technologies. Washington, DC-based Gilfus Education Group has released its annual list of the top five trends in education innovation for 2012, which included three focused on higher education technologies:

Open CourseWare will publish 20 OCW Scholar courses in the next three years, all focused on introductory college-level science, mathematics, engineering and other foundational subjects. The first OCW Scholar courses to be released will be: 8.01SC Physics I, 8.02SC Physics II, 18.01SC Calculus I, 18.02SC Calculus II and 3.091SC Introduction to Solid State Chemistry. These courses are OCW’s first attempt at this new approach, and OCW will actively seek user feedback on each of them.

See which schools are tops for online bachelor’s and master’s degrees. By Kelsey Sheehy January 10, 2012 RSS Feed Print Online course enrollment in the United States hit an all-time high in 2010 with more than 6.1 million students, and the trend shows no signs of leveling off, according to a 2011 report by the [...]

As 2011 comes to a close, the time has come to reflect on how innovation and perhaps failure have shaken up the education system. A version of this post was originally published on the LearnBoost blog (that I manage), but it has been syndicated for its broader implications and interest to a more general audience. [...]