Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

"The message this conference had to land was we're back," writes Phil Hill. "The message it could easily have landed instead was we're alive—a company going through the motions because not having a conference would have looked worse." The company is staffing its new leadership team and preparing a new strategy (one that hopefully for them does not involve taking on mountains of debt). Hill deftly summarizes the set of new features and offerings the company has planned, including Ally, which leads on accessibility work, and Cursive, which "captures a continuous record of the writing process—keystrokes, pace, revisions, time on task—from first draft to submission, producing something an instructor can review rather than a probability score."

Today: Total: [Direct link] [Share]


Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
stephen@downes.ca

Copyright 2026
Last Updated: Jul 29, 2026 10:21 a.m.

Canadian Flag Creative Commons License.