• Mix and Match, SIS and Financial Systems in HigherEd

    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…

  • Data on Average Age of Current SIS Implementation in Canada

    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…

  • 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 Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Student Information Systems (SIS) Are Used in Conjunction?

    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…

  • European LMS Market

    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…

  • Update: LMS Usage In Large Online Programs (Top 50 in US)

    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…

  • Blackboard Down!

    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…

  • Is the LMS a Billion dollar Market?

    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…

  • LMS Pilots as Lead Indicators of Market Movements

    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 Overview of Market Share

    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 Providers’ Market Share by Implementation Year

    LMS Providers’ Market Share by Implementation Year

    In this post, we will look at how LMS providers are sharing the North American market based on new LMS implementations. As you know, the landscape of the LMS market is constantly changing. To visualize this movement, we usually look at year over year percentage change of a vendor’s market share. Below is a traditional…

  • Top HigherEd LMS vendors and the company’s client base

    Top HigherEd LMS vendors and the company’s client base

    We’ve previously looked at how the LMS market evolved over time (here and here), providing insights into which vendor will dominate in the near future. But what is the current state of the market? Who are the LMS vendors’ clients? In this post, we want to look at the LMS vendors’ client base to see if the…