Category: Learning Management Systems

  • LMS Market Share – LMS Trends

    LMS Market Share – LMS Trends

    The Higher Education market share for Learning Management Systems (LMS) has been looked at and tracked for as long as they have been used in colleges and universities. For years, The Campus Computing Project has been the reference used to get better insight on the LMS usage in HigherEd. This information is based on surveys of institutions (the…

  • WebCT and How it Helped Open Source LMS

    WebCT and How it Helped Open Source LMS

    Ten years ago, in October 2005, Blackboard announced the purchase of WebCT for $180M USD ($218M in current USD). This announcement caused ripples in higher education. It was the second biggest merger to be announced in as many weeks. The first such purchase was of PeopleSoft by Oracle. The merger of the two biggest LMS companies was received…

  • Top Learning Management System (LMS) by State or Province

    Top Learning Management System (LMS) by State or Province

    The following visualization illustrates what is the top, or in this case the most popular, Learning Management System by State, Province or Territory. We compiled the 4000+ higher education LMS that we have in the ListEdTech wiki to see what was the one system that was most used by State or Province. Using this data, we…

  • LMS at the top of the rankings

    LMS at the top of the rankings

    In my last post, I identified the top 200 universities. To do this, I compiled 8 world rankings and averaged out the rankings to find the top universities. Since I had most of the data, I thought it would be interesting to see what LMS (learning management system) the top universities used. Also, I wanted…

  • LMS used by MOOC Institutions

    LMS used by MOOC Institutions

    Have you ever wondered why MOOCs suddently appeared? Why educational institutions didn’t just use their learning management systems (LMS) and open specific courses to everyone? Was something wrong with their LMS that pushed them to get a MOOC system? What learning management system were they using? We looked at the MOOC’s 451 partner institutions and…

  • World Map of Learning Management Systems 08/2013

    World Map of Learning Management Systems 08/2013

    As requested by Ramon Garrote, I have created an updated World Map of Learning Management Systems. The initial map was done one year ago in August 2012. At that time, I had information on about 5100 Colleges and Universities. I now have information on over 5600 Higher Educational Institutions. If you look at sheer numbers…

  • LMS used in Canada

    LMS used in Canada

    This small analysis, visualises the current learning management system (LMS) used in higher education institution across Canada. Play with the filters and let me know what you think.

  • World Map of Learning Management Systems

    World Map of Learning Management Systems

    World Map of LMS Based on more than 5100 Higher Educational Institutions worldwide listed in the ListEdTech.com DB, I have compiled a map that represents the most deployed LMS by country. If you look at sheer numbers of countries, Moodle is the clear winner with 116 of the 138 represented (Blackboard has 15, Claroline 5…