EdTech Product Managers - LMS Audit - Does Product Manage Learning

The most successful education technology of the last twenty-five years has never taught anyone anything. It enrols students, files their PDFs, records attendance and posts grades. We call it a learning management system. Learning is the one thing it does not manage. For twenty-five articles I have prosecuted the university — the Factory of Facts, its assembly line of credits and semesters. This week I turn to the factory's suppliers, and open a new arc of ten: The EdTech Audit. The first finding is uncomfortable. An industry that raised billions promising to disrupt the factory went into business selling it faster conveyor belts. The evidence is in the logs. A full semester of LMS usage data at one large university: Announcements in 82% of courses. Grades in 71%. The discussion board — the one tool built for students to think in front of each other — in 21%. A noticeboard, a filing cabinet, and a ledger. The pedagogy in the basement. Why? Follow the invoice. The learner has never signed the cheque for an LMS. The registrar does. And a product serves whoever pays for it, with a fidelity no mission statement can override. I call it The Vendor Trap. Three questions I would ask of every EdTech product before a rupee moves: Does it touch the learning or the ledger? Whose week actually improves? What does it measure? The factory is closing. Its best supplier has not noticed. Full piece below — and I would genuinely like to hear from those of you inside EdTech: which of your products would pass all three questions? 👇#ReimagineEducation #EdTech #HigherEducation #LMS #EdTechAudit #AcademicLeadership #DigitalTransformation #LearningDesign #UniversityStrategy #NEP2020 #FutureOfEducation #EdTechIndia