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Student Information System Software by Total Enrollment
When a post-secondary institution wishes to change its Student Information System software, what is the first question they ask? It’s usually either What system is my neighbour using? or What system is used by institutions of my size? About five years ago when my university (University of Ottawa) started looking for a new Student Information System software to ... Student Information System Software by Total Enrollment Read More
Mix and Match, SIS and Financial Systems in HigherEd
Eighty-five percent of higher education institutions choose to deal with one main system provider for their administrative systems (financial and student information systems). By having one provider, the integration is smoother, the price negotiations are easier and the support is usual quick and friendly. Now, as for the 15% of HigherEd institutions that choose to ... Mix and Match, SIS and Financial Systems in HigherEd Read More
Data on Average Age of Current SIS Implementation in Canada
Over the past few years, we have mostly posted on LMS systems. This is due to the fact that we have been heavily invested in the launch of the LMS Report Subscription with our partners at e-Literate. What several of you probably don’t know is that we have been accumulating lots of data on other ... Data on Average Age of Current SIS Implementation in Canada Read More
What Percentage of HigherEd Institutions have a LMS?
Have you ever wondered what percentage of HigherEd institutions have a learning management system? We, at LISTedTECH, have. It’s a question that we often ask ourselves, especially since we are continuously expanding our coverage. When a new country differs greatly in percentage than the average, we question our tools, our product list, and even if ... What Percentage of HigherEd Institutions have a LMS? Read More
What Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Student Information Systems (SIS) Are Used in Conjunction?
We use this chord diagram to show the movement in the LMS market – from the old system to the new system. We got great feedback, so we decided to use the same format to represent the relationship between the LMS market and the SIS market. As most of you know, several LMS are out ... What Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Student Information Systems (SIS) Are Used in Conjunction? Read More
European LMS Market
The Spring 2016 LMS Market Report from our partners at e-Literate focused mostly on the United States and Canada. We, at LISTedTECH, now have data from more than 1,600 higher education institutions throughout Europe and are happy to share e-Literate’s first market analysis for this region. While this report and future analysis will be part of the LMS subscription ... European LMS Market Read More
Update: LMS Usage In Large Online Programs (Top 50 in US)
By: Phil Hill and Justin Menard. Cross-posted at e-Literate Three and a half years ago Phil wrote a post “Snapshot of LMS Market for Large Online Programs in the US” giving a view into this growing segment of higher education. Large online enrollment institutions typically mean a centrally-coordinated provision of online courses, often with duplicate course ... Update: LMS Usage In Large Online Programs (Top 50 in US) Read More
Blackboard Down!
With the help of a social media monitoring service from Cyclope Labs, we have been tapping into the massive amount of data from Twitter. The goal was to see if we could find useful data that would help enrich our understanding of the LMS market dynamics (including our LMS subscription service). We used several filters ... Blackboard Down! Read More
Is the LMS a Billion dollar Market?
After reading an article entitled “Billion-dollar e-learning market about to undergo major shift“, I started wondering if that number, the “billion dollar”, was actually a good evaluation. Several questions came to mind: Since this is a big and difficult question to answer, consider this my attempt to contribute to that discussion with the data I have at my ... Is the LMS a Billion dollar Market? Read More
LMS Pilots as Lead Indicators of Market Movements
As promised in our last post, we will look at the HigherEd institutions that are currently running a Canvas pilot. Pilots are an experimental feature of the LISTedTECH wiki so comparisons to other vendors are difficult at this point. Consequently, we will only focus on the Canvas pilots for now. We can however tell you that ... LMS Pilots as Lead Indicators of Market Movements Read More
LMS Overview of Market Share
In our last post, we used the LMS implementation dates to show how the market is evolving based on which systems are being selected for new implementations. In this post, we will also take into account decommissioning dates, so we are only left with active implementations per year. We’re proposing below an historical LMS overview ... LMS Overview of Market Share Read More
