Phil Hill

About Phil Hill

Phil is a consultant and industry analyst covering the educational technology market primarily for higher education. He has written for e-Literate since Aug 2011. For a more complete biography, view his profile page.

Christensen Scorecard: Data visualization of US postsecondary institution closures and mergers

Phil Hill · Apr 2, 2019 ·

There has been a lot of talk about Christensen’s prediction on half of schools closing in a decade without much real data . . . until now.

Instructure: Plans to expand beyond Canvas LMS into machine learning and AI

Phil Hill · Mar 11, 2019 ·

Instructure is not the same company it was just a year or two ago. Thanks to public reporting, the changes are out in the open.

Flawed AEI Report on Online Education: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Phil Hill · Mar 7, 2019 ·

At what point does a theme become a schtick? These ‘deeply flawed’ reports on online education are pushing towards the latter.

Moodle Workplace: A new product and change in open source deployment

Phil Hill · Mar 5, 2019 ·

Moodle HQ more aggressively pushing into pro-ed market with Moodle Workplace with a change in how open source code is deployed (hint, it’s not universally available).

D2L: Continuing emphasis on services and completion of move to SaaS model

Phil Hill · Mar 3, 2019 ·

If you want story of aggressive migration to SaaS model (public cloud) for an LMS company, look no further than D2L and Brightspace. Transformation to be complete in 2019.

OPM Readings: New policy briefing from UCT and other useful coverage

Phil Hill · Mar 1, 2019 ·

Four recent articles about the OPM market that are worth reading.

Blackboard Updates: Learn SaaS progress and LMS market news

Phil Hill · Feb 26, 2019 ·

Blackboard shares news with e-Literate about Learn SaaS and company updates.