Michael Feldstein

Are you curious—or anxious—about machine learning and artificial intelligence EdTech? Do you want to know what the research does and doesn’t tell us about how data science tools help with student retention,...

A while back, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by friends at the University of Cape Town about the future of higher education as part of a short video they were compiling for their senior leadership. Here’s...

This week we’re joined by my friend and partner Curtiss Barnes. You may have seen his posts on e-Literate, including his most popular (so far), “The Billion-Dollar EdTech Platform Hole.” e-Literate author and...

Ever since EduTools way back in the day—remember that?—folks have been grappling with a way to create a useful and maintainable tool for sorting through EdTech solutions. My friends at Tyton Partners, under a grant...

I was delighted to be the inaugural guest on Rethink Education‘s podcast series, The Rethinking Education Sessions. My hosts were Rethink’s Managing Partner Matt Greenfield and Associate Amanda Beaudoin. I love...

The always fascinating and gentlemanly Doug Lederman This week we’re bringing back e-Literate LIVE! fan favorite Doug Lederman, co-Founder and Editor of Inside Higher Ed, for our Blursday Social chat. As usual, we can...

Forbes just ran with an article entitled “This $12 Billion Company Is Getting Rich Off Students Cheating Their Way Through Covid“. Ouch. It’s obviously an unsympathetic portrait. At one point, the author quotes...

This post is the third in a series about the collaboration on a new courseware platform between Carnegie Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative (OLI) and Arizona State University’s Center for Education Through...

Happy not-2020 anymore! In celebration of the slightly-less-awfulness, we are restarting Blursday Socials with a bang. You may have been following my blog post series on the collaboration between Carnegie Mellon...

In a recent post, I announced a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) Open Learning Initiative (OLI) group and Arizona State University’s Center for Education Through eXploration (ETX) to build a...

Welp, it’s been a year, hasn’t it? Everybody, including the EdTech-averse, has had to go all-in on EdTech all at once. And it’s exposed some potholes. Some we knew were there, others we learned to live with and...

After a brief hiatus for Turkey and such, Blursday Social with e-Literate LIVE! will back next Blursday, 12/3 from 4 PM to 5:30 PM ET. This week we’ll be talking with some good friends at EDUCAUSE about our...

Phil and Michael, bustin’ some moves. Gang, don’t forget that this week’s Blursday Social guest is Phil Hill. Blursday Socials are conversational, so we’ll all talk about whatever the folks who show up want to...

In my last post, I argued that scaling the seminar is an equity issue: [S]caling the seminar is essential for equity if we want to avoid a two-track system of education—one at expensive universities and another for...

In my recent first look at Engageli, I wrote about the importance of scaling the humanities seminar. The short version is that budget pressures will force universities to make cuts to programs that are the most costly...

So, the bad news is that this week’s Blursday Social has been cancelled. The bar is closed for renovations. The good news is that we have some great guests coming up in the next couple of Blursdays. First, Susan...

Last week on Blursday Socials with e-Literate LIVE!, we had the pleasure of chatting with Jeff Young, the creator of the Pandemic Campus Diaries podcast, which is still one of the best ways I know of to get a feel for...

In a recent blog post, I argued that structural changes—the lasting effects of COVID and the acceleration of ubiquitous broadband—would mean that some of the shift to online will be permanent. I also argued that the...