“It is our impression that CANVAS is generally a secure application and that the issues found can quickly be remediated”, and that “None of these issues are associated with major application flaws that are difficult to remediate”.

no other vendor has been this public with their testing results

When universities can’t bully students into taking gen ed courses by threatening to withhold their degrees, what will they do? General education will have to be sold to students on its merits rather than placed as roadblocks on the way to the courses they really want.

Educational institutions will not go away, in-fact, their worth and contribution will be absolutely necessary, as validators and reviewers of the digital portfolios that will be linked to badges they award, authenticating the integrity and worth of the badge. It is not dissimilar to “certificates of proficiency” that are awarded by certain institutions or organizations that are at a finer grain size than an entire degree.

The existing data gathering in schools and universities pales in comparison to the value of data mining and learning analytics opportunities that exist in the distributed social and informational networks that we all participate in on a daily basis. It is here, I think, that most of the novel insights on learning and knowledge growth will occur. When we interact in a learning management system (LMS), we do so purposefully — to learn or to complete an assignment. Our interaction in distributed systems is more "authentic" and can yield novel insights into how we are connected, our sentiments, and our needs in relation to learning success.

learners should have access to the same dashboard for analytics that educators and institutions see

a learning management system like Moodle or Desire2Learn captures a significant amount of data, including time spent on a resource, frequency of posting, number of logins, etc

Knewton’s award-winning Adaptive Learning Platform™ uses proprietary algorithms to deliver a personalized learning path for each student, each day. Knewton’s technology identifies each student’s strengths, weaknesses and unique learning style. Taking into account both personal proficiencies and course requirements, the platform continuously tailors learning materials to each student’s exact needs, delivering the most relevant content in the most efficient and effective form.