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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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An Update on K-12 SIS Market Share
Last week, Wade Tyler Millward wrote an article on EdSurge, “Illuminate to Sunset Student Information System in 2021“, in which he presented one of our graphs to show the relative market share in the K-12 SIS market. His goal was to show the impact of such an action from Illuminate. According to our data, this ... An Update on K-12 SIS Market Share Read More
SIS Historical Market Share – North America
Today, we launch our SIS subscription service. To mark this milestone, we have created a chart that illustrates the Student Information Systems market share since 2000.
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Best of Breed versus Best of Suite
Bigger institutions are moving toward the ‘Best of Breed" approach while smaller institutions seem happy with a unified suite.
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