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LMS at the top of the rankings
In my last post, I identified the top 200 universities. To do this, I compiled 8 world rankings and averaged out the rankings to find the top universities. Since I had most of the data, I thought it would be interesting to see what LMS (learning management system) the top universities used. Also, I wanted ... LMS at the top of the rankings Read More
MOOCs, a short history
When The New York Times dubbed 2012 “The Year of the MOOC,” it was pretty much on, give or take a year. As the visualisation below shows, 2012 was big, but 2013 is even bigger if you look at it from the number of partnering institutions. At the end of 2012, 100 universities and colleges ... MOOCs, a short history Read More
8 World University Rankings – Side by Side 2013
As stated in the post I published 6 months ago (9 World University Rankings – Side by Side), the different world university rankings are somewhat controversial. Their methodology are often dissected to show flaws, and universities often dislike them because of the influence they have come to wield. Not one ranking has been hailed as ... 8 World University Rankings – Side by Side 2013 Read More
LMS used by MOOC Institutions
Have you ever wondered why MOOCs suddently appeared? Why educational institutions didn’t just use their learning management systems (LMS) and open specific courses to everyone? Was something wrong with their LMS that pushed them to get a MOOC system? What learning management system were they using? We looked at the MOOC’s 451 partner institutions and ... LMS used by MOOC Institutions Read More
Worldwide MOOCs (19 systems)
Inspired by the article on EdSurge, I realised that I had the information for 19 MOOCs. The following visualization is based on the institutions that have partnered with the different MOOCs from January 2003 to August 2013. Mar 2003 – UKeU – (closed in 2005) Apr 2007 – ALISON (Advance Learning Interactive Systems Online) Jun ... Worldwide MOOCs (19 systems) Read More
World Map of Learning Management Systems 08/2013
As requested by Ramon Garrote, I have created an updated World Map of Learning Management Systems. The initial map was done one year ago in August 2012. At that time, I had information on about 5100 Colleges and Universities. I now have information on over 5600 Higher Educational Institutions. If you look at sheer numbers ... World Map of Learning Management Systems 08/2013 Read More
MOOCs University profiles : Coursera, edX, Futurelearn, iversity, OpenEd and Udacity
See new and updated versionI have updated the visualisation with the most recent information, added 2 new Moocs and added 5 world university rankings I now have 11 MOOCs in the Viz: CourseSites (Blackboard), Coursera, Coursolve, edX, Futurelearn, Iversity, Open Learning Global, Open2Study , OpenEd, Udacity and Veduca. We haven’t Included the following MOOCs since ... MOOCs University profiles : Coursera, edX, Futurelearn, iversity, OpenEd and Udacity Read More
Alexa vs World University rankings
I was looking at Alexa’s Traffic Rank and how it allows you to compare websites. This got me thinking that evaluating a URL is a bit like evaluating an university or a college. You can compare its popularity, reference, credibility, incoming links, or measure its relative importance, influence, citations, etc. So I decided to compare ... Alexa vs World University rankings Read More
Canheit – Technology used in Canadian Institutions
As promised in my first Canheit tribute post, I have created a second vizualisation based on technology used by Canadian higher education institutions (colleges and universities). The following viz has 5 main graphs, each representing a different category. The size of each bubble represents the percentage for each system used compared the other systems in ... Canheit – Technology used in Canadian Institutions Read More
Canadian HigherEd Institutions
Since CANHEIT 2013 is being held in Ottawa and co-hosted by Carleton University and the great University of Ottawa (that’s right, I’m biased), I decided to do a few vizualisations about our Canadian HigherEd institutions. In this first vizualisation, I’m hopping to show general characteristics about our Canadian institutions. The next ones will be more ... Canadian HigherEd Institutions Read More
Historical compilation of 7 world universities rankings: huge drop for US, rise for French
After reading an article from HESA where the author explains (referring to Times Higher Education’s annual Reputation Rankings) that “only the position of the top 6 or so is genuinely secure. Below about tenth position, everyone else is packed so closely together that changes in rank order are basically guaranteed”, we wanted to see how ... Historical compilation of 7 world universities rankings: huge drop for US, rise for French Read More
