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Chatbots in Higher Education are Reaching Millions of Students
It’s not every day that you see a higher ed chatbot company raising $117 million. However, that was announced last week by Ocelot, a texting and chatbot company focusing on higher education. I’ve written a lot about chatbots. In 2016, I wrote a post on chatbot/SMS messaging that featured AdmitHub, now known as Mainstay, and its…
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Shifting Enrollments in US Colleges During the Pandemic: Going Online
With the late August release of IPEDS enrollment data, we have new, important views into the enrolment shifts that have occurred across US higher education. Specifically, another year of 12-month enrollment data was released- allowing for more segmented measurements of how the impact of the pandemic has been playing out in terms of shifting enrollments…
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itslearning Exits the US Market
Last week, we found a document that said: “During the 2021-2022 school year, itsLearing [sic] announced it was ending service to all of North America.” At first, we were surprised but tried to understand the announcement. We contacted Phil Hill to get his input on the itslearning move. “[I] knew they were exploring options but…
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New Category on the Portal: K-12 Portal Now Live
At ListEdTech, our goal is to help institutions and companies have access to more data to make better decisions. In mid-August of 2022, we made the Portals product category available for HigherEd. Today, we are happy to announce that the K-12 Portal subgroup is now accessible on our portal. Even though we are still working…
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Is ZeeMee the Next Facebook?
It’s been nearly two decades since many of us started using Facebook. Using a social network (or any website) for that amount of time is pretty astonishing. Known collectively as Meta, the world’s most used social network conglomerate now includes Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Workplace. The arc of Facebook’s dominance started off as a…
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Are Institutions Buying More From the Same Product Suite?
This post originates from a discussion with a client. He was wondering if an institution tends to select additional products from the same product suite if it were to expand its IT offering. From the data collected at ListEdTech, the answer is that it depends on the product category. For some product groups, we note…
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Workday: Focus on Student Success
Workday entered the education world about a decade ago. The offering of its HR Management and Financial Management solutions went without saying, but Workday positioned itself in the education world when it launched Workday Student in 2016. Ex-PeopleSoft Employees Founded a New Company Workday was founded in March 2005 following the acquisition of PeopleSoft by Oracle.…
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Renaissance Acquires Illuminate Education
NOTE: Our “assessments and evaluations” product group is still in development. The data referencing this should be considered preliminary. With the end of the summer came another acquisition: Renaissance acquired Illuminate Education on August 24, 2022. Now merging, these two K-12-centric companies will accentuate their leading presence in the assessments and evaluations product category. Let’s…
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The Importance of Identifying Primary and Secondary Systems
We had our first-ever live stream last week as we announced that the institution portal would be free for college/university users. Justin Menard, CEO of ListEdTech, and I talked about the origins of ListEdTech and the rationale for moving the portal to a free service. Here’s the full conversation: ListEdTech LIVE https://t.co/lmqXjwoU5W — ListEdTech (@Listedtech) August 30,…
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Our Institution Portal Is Now Free
We were incredibly proud to launch our institution portal a little over a year ago. This essential edtech database, packed with micro and macro trends on more than 25 product categories, will become a necessary step in product selection. Today, we make things easier: our institution portal is now free of charge. We made this…
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Farewell, Edmodo!
On August 15, 2022, the learning management system community learned it was about to lose one of its members. As mentioned in the Twitter announcement, Edmodo will sunset its LMS portal (its only product) on September 22, 2022. What led to this decision? At first, we tried to understand why NetDragon (the owner of Edmodo…
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Adding the Portals Category to the ListEdTech Portal
The evolution of portals over the past twenty years is substantial. When it first hit the HigherEd sphere in the 1990s, most solutions were homegrown and consisted of a series of links to software used by the institution. Most institutions did not invest in integrations within the portal. Thanks to APIs and the evolution of…
