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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…
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The Conferencing Systems Category Is About to Change… Again.
There is no doubt that Zoom dominates the conferencing systems group. Like other product categories, not all solutions in a large group compete for the same piece of the pie. For instance, while Zoom and Microsoft Teams focus on live streaming meetings, conferences and video calls, Panopto and Kaltura prominently provide video management solutions. At…
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My Take Away From the D2L Fusion Conference
I was invited to attend this year’s D2L Fusion Conference. This was my first D2L conference. It was held in Boston (Mass.), July 20-22, 2022. Instead of welcoming the regular 1,000 participants, the conference hosted around 700 attendees. The attendance drop is due, you guess it, to the COVID-19 virus and the travel difficulties it brings.…
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Justin’s Thoughts on Anthology Together
Earlier this month, I was invited to attend the annual Anthology/Blackboard conference, entitled Anthology Together. This was my first time attending an Anthology or a Blackboard conference. The conference took place at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort in Orlando (Florida) from July 11th to July 14th, 2022 and had about 2,200 total attendees. I must say that…
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The 2022 Grant Management System Report Is Out!
We are happy to announce that the third annual report on grant management systems is now available for companies to buy. It is also available at no charge to institutions – more information on downloading the report is available at the post’s end. At the core of its business strategy, ListEdTech wants to gather as…
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Are Metaversities Just Better Looking Versions of Second Life?
Whenever you write about anything about virtual reality and higher education, it’s essential to take a spin through memory lane. Primarily because while improvements have been made in both the software and hardware of VR, it still doesn’t feel like it’s quite there yet. Second Life as the Precursor Back in 2009, when I was…
