5 mars 2019

By Phil Hill. This is the eleventh year I have shared the LMS market share graphic, commonly known as the squid graphic, for US and Canadian higher education. This past year we at e-Literate shifted our LMS Market Analysis reports from Spring / Fall to Mid-Year / End-of-Year to better allow analysis of entire years. More...

By Phil Hill. Inside Higher Ed reported today on a new survey report on community colleges and challenges that students face. More...

By Phil Hill. In last week's post on Blackboard, I shared the roughly linear progression of migration of the Learn LMS to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model - a move that we believe is more important than is the Learn Ultra user experience. More...

By Phil Hill. Over the past eight days there have been a series of valuable articles covering Online Program Management (OPM) and the broader Online Program Enablement (OPE) markets. More...

By Phil Hill. Blackboard had a lot of news to share two weeks ago when we spoke with CEO Bill Ballhaus and senior teaching and learning executives. The updates addressed efforts to streamline the business, customer retention, and customer acquisition. More...

By Michael Feldstein. My last post was called "Is Ed Tech Hype in Remission?" It was about—surprise!—the interesting phenomenon of ed tech hype seemingly fading for the moment. I started the post by apparently breaking a little news. More...

By Michael Feldstein. Last Wednesday, there was an announcement about an investment in Civitas Learning that appeared to escape the notice of the educational press. Even EdSurge and Education Dive, which are both pretty good about covering the investment side of ed tech, seem to have missed it. More...

By Michael Feldstein. Carnegie Mellon and Duke are theoretically peers. To use one very imperfect measure, they are both ranked in the top 25 national universities by US News and World Report. They are both more specifically ranked in the top 15 such schools for undergraduate teaching. More...

By Phil Hill and Jason Cole. Moodle unveiled its new product, Moodle Workplace, at the the Learning Technologies conference in London three weeks ago. While the open source Moodle LMS has been used by companies and organizations for employee training for years (approximately 40% of Moodle implementations worldwide according to this 2015 interview), Workplace represents a new approach for Moodle's usage of open source deployment. More...

By Jason Cole. I recently spent a day at BETT (formerly known as the British Educational Training and Technology show), the UK’s largest educational technology show. The show tends to skew towards the primary and further education market (k-12 and community college in the US), but there is also significant higher education presence. More...