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Campus Management and Edcentric are purchased by Veritas Capital
Campus Management and Edcentric have very little product overlap, but they complement each other in that they are positioned to help higher education institutions improve their overall efficacy in providing platforms that could potentially respond to the institutions' needs in regard to robust organizational systems.
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Historical LMS in North America – K-12 and Higher Education
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 ... Historical LMS in North America – K-12 and Higher Education Read More
Possible Sale of Ellucian: Brief History of One of the Biggest HigherEd Tech Company
With the recent news that “TPG and Leonard Green & Partners are gearing up to sell Ellucian Software”, we wanted to have a closer look at its history, its market share and its positioning in the HigherEd market. Not only is Ellucian a large HigherEd player, but it is also the largest HigherEd technology company ... Possible Sale of Ellucian: Brief History of One of the Biggest HigherEd Tech Company Read More
School Closures and their Impact on Students
When we reposted Phil Hill’s blog post on school closures in April 2019, we received a comment from Andres Fortino, Principal at Fortino Global Education and Adjunct Faculty Member at NYU School of Professional Studies, who suggested taking in consideration the actual enrollment versus the number of institutions impacted by school closures: “I think you are looking ... School Closures and their Impact on Students Read More
Is the K-12 Market Heading Towards Consolidation
In the K-12 market, we can see the first signs of consolidation
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Update: SIS Subscription
We are now adding the following list of the countries for which we now have what we consider adequate SIS data.
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Blackboard’s LMS Hosting Models
The graph contains over 2100 active Blackboard implementations and they are divided as follows:
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PowerSchool acquires Schoology: the K-12 landscape is changing
On October 24, it was announced that PowerSchool signed an agreement to acquire Schoology. Let’s have a closer look at this soon-to-be purchase transaction to see how the companies will benefit from this acquisition. First, let’s outline the profiles of PowerSchool and Schoology. Founded in 1997, PowerSchool is known to offer a comprehensive K-12 student ... PowerSchool acquires Schoology: the K-12 landscape is changing Read More
Facial Recognition Software – Future EdTech
This technology not only helps in admitting only registered students on campus, it also provides surveillance of the students’ learning in the classroom.
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SIS Customer Migrations in the 2010s
How the SIS market evolved in the past decade, the transition between products.
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