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Francisco Partners Purchased VitalSource
On June 1, Francisco Partners, an investment firm that focuses on technology, officially acquired VitalSource to broaden its investments in digital education. With this new investment, Francisco partners gain more than 25 years of experience in digital learning platforms, implemented across the world. About VitalSource Founded in 1994, VitalSource has improved the online course materials…
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What is a peer institution for Education?
When it comes to product selection, a question that is often asked is: what product is implemented in a comparable institution? This is a normal and healthy exercise. To be able to answer this question, we first need to set some criteria to define what is a peer institution. Criteria to define a “peer institution”…
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An update to our report on grant management system
At ListEdTech, with spring comes our second report on grant management systems. After last year’s interest in our report, we are working hard on the updated version for 2021. Should you be interested in reading the report, we aim to have it available in early June. Like last year, we have contacted the companies in…
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Quottly – Helping Students Graduate on Time
Student graduation rate is a challenge that many universities and colleges face. We often see student success/retention systems being implemented to tackle this situation, but what about coming back to the basics and simply helping them find courses to finish their program? As part of our monthly series on edtech companies, this month, we showcase…
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Are RFPs a Good Predictor for Product Purchase?
Since the inception of ListEdTech, we mostly relied on web crawling to gain our knowledge about implementations in HigherEd (and K-12) for all product categories. As we want to become more efficient and versatile with our data collection, and possibly get an extra indicator of market trends, we have started, six months ago, compiling RFP…
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Cloud Nine for Ellucian
Ellucian had their yearly conference Ellucian live 2021 last week. During the event, we saw several announcements about their cloud implementations. At ListEdTech, we like to use this type of affirmations to help validate our data. We decided to use this occasion to share it. As a general rule, we are able to gather 80%…
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Average Lifespan of IT Systems in Higher Education
How much time a system is kept before it’s due to be replaced? What is the average lifespan of IT systems in a said product category? Is it time for our institution to change its systems? How many systems does an institution change per year? You guessed it, this post will talk about implementation numbers…
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Turnitin Acquiring Ouriginal: what’s left on the market
Seven months after Urkund bought PlagScan to form Ouriginal, Turnitin is clear on its position: this new competition has to be part of the Turnitin family. Let’s see what the biggest plagiarism company to exist will look like. Client base Because Urkund was located in Sweden and Plagscan was based out of Germany, Ouriginal was…
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K16 Solutions: How to Migrate any LMS to a New Platform
This company profile is part of our monthly feature on edtech companies. For this month, we selected a company that is not one of the big market leaders but rather a small company that simply impressed us. Anyone who was part of, or suffered through, an LMS data migration knows that this task, part of…
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PowerSchool and EAB to Acquire Hobsons’ Products
On February 18, 2021, the edtech world learned that parts of Hobsons were about to be dismantled and sold to two companies. Naviance and Intersect products will soon be part of the PowerSchool portfolio, an acquisition marked at $320 million, while Starfish will be transferred to EAB for about $90 million. In one of our…
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The UK LMS Market is Changing
Since the early 2000s, the learning management system market has fast evolved everywhere in the world. When looking at the historical LMS implementations in Canada, we notice that this product category has seen the dominance of a Canadian company (WebCT) for almost the first decade of the century. Despite having several LMS companies from the…
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Why Adopt an Advanced Faculty Information System?
Acknowledgement of the importance of efficiency and transparency has spurred higher education providers than ever before to explore and adopt faculty information system (FIS) technology.
