Category: Learning Management Systems

In the last few months, the LMS world has seen the potential sale of Instructure and the sale of Schoology. To explore the history of the LMS world, we decided to build a Bar Chart Race to show the evolution of the market share for the past 20+ years. The LMS market share has evolved…

The graph contains over 2100 active Blackboard implementations and they are divided as follows:

For HigherEd institutions, about 50% of new LMS implementations were cloud-hosted by 2010. For K-12 school districts, they crossed the 50% mark a bit later in 2012.

The K-12 market is more fragmented than the higher ed market. Many of the same players are present, but there are several K-12 focused vendors as well, most notably Google Classroom, Edmodo, Khan Academy and Schoology.

Closed U.S. Universities and Colleges and the Connection with LMS Providers

Can All Student Success Systems Be Integrated With Major LMS?

The article is cross-posted at e-Literate One of the trends we have been covering is the gradual consolidation of global LMS markets in higher education around “the Big Four”, Moodle, Blackboard, Canvas, and D2L Brightspace. While there are marked similarities in terms of this consolidation along with the broader move to the cloud, it would be…

We have been offering the LMS Subscription with the e-Literate team for almost two years. We initially started covering the North American market, expanded with Europe and Oceania markets and will soon release the Latin America market report. We are constantly expanding our coverage and we are proud of it. We hit a small milestone last week having accumulated the data of over…

  Twitter is a massive data source. In the past, we have looked, in our post Blackboard Down!, at student tweets saying that a particular LMS was down. In this post, we will look at students expressing feelings about all the LMS notification they receive. I general, students are mostly unhappy about the volume of notifications. But,…

Article is by Phil Hill and Cross-posted at e-Literate Over the past several months, we have worked with our partners at eLiterate as we have ramped up our efforts to collect data on LMS usage in the K-12 market in the United States. This is a massive effort as the market includes more than 130,000…