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The Use of Virtual Reality in Higher Education
Virtual reality is seeing a renewal. Revealed as a productive tool in the sphere of education, it is hypothesized that the reason it has not been used more widely up to now is mostly financial. For instance, one oculus module (full retail pricing) is sold for a minimum of USD 549. Virtual reality, which works…
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Workday SIS – Speculation
Assuming that the future users of Workday SIS are current Workday clients, Banner Student would be the one taking the biggest hit followed by Oracle Peoplesoft.
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Higher Ed LMS Market for US and Canada: Year-End 2019 Edition
We believe the market is entering a new phase, with new competitive dynamics.
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Grant Management in the Educational Sector
As a first glance into the Grant Systems market, we wanted to look at the overall market.
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What the US can tell us about how mature SIS markets behave
Guest blog post by (Joshua Perry) This is part two in a series of two blogs written by Justin Menard and me (Joshua Perry) using each other’s datasets. His blog post last week examined customer migration in the UK. This blog will look at what the North American market can tell us about how markets evolve. But before I…
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Historical K12 SIS Customer Migration in the United Kingdom
Back in November, I got the chance to meet Joshua Perry, writer of the “Bring more data” blog. Joshua has been following the Management Information System (MIS) used in the UK K12 market. Have a look at some of his posts http://bringmoredata.blogspot.com. After discussing our mutual interests in educational systems’ market trends, we thought it could be interesting for the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
