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Some big personnel changes in LMS market

By Phil Hill. Posted on August 23, 2013

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In just the past week we have had three fairly significant people depart higher ed LMS companies. This really is turning out to be a bumpy ride as the market changes. Ray Henderson announced last night that he is leaving his operational role at Blackboard (President, Academic Platforms and CTO) and is moving into a […]

Moodle has quietly become the dominant LMS for online service providers

By Phil Hill. Posted on August 16, 2013

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One subject that we have not covered much at e-Literate lately is the market position of Moodle. Given the significant LMS market changes over the past two years, it might be worth considering how institutions are adopting and using Moodle. In the US at least, there has been a significant change – whereas in previous […]

Yup, Something (Good) Is Up at Blackboard

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on August 9, 2013

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When a company the size of Blackboard makes substantial organizational changes, it can be difficult to assess what is really going on. In the beginning, the stories tend to look similar. The old CEO…decides he wants to “spend more time with his family.”1 Well-known long-time employees leave the company en masse, some of their own volition […]

This is not your father’s Blackboard

By Phil Hill. Posted on August 8, 2013

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Thanks for inviting me to this conference in Las Vegas, but I couldn’t help notice there is no After Party. Could you point me to the BbWorld conference instead? . . . What’s that? . . . Really?? Because I just came out of a product roadmap presentation where people were clapping, and not just […]

Desire 2 Improve

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on August 1, 2013

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Phil and I spent some time at Desire2Learn’s FUSION conference the other week, and it was an interesting experience. D2L had a couple of first-ever “analyst days” in which we and a few others got some intensive briefings on their products and strategies. (D2L isn’t the only company that is doing this sort of thing, […]

BREAKING: Blackboard Uses “MOOC” in a Sentence

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on July 12, 2013

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This week we heard the news that Blackboard…um…they are…well…something about MOOCs. They like them, I think. Or something. Look, I get it. The company has realized that they need to take more direct action in response to the MOOC trend and, while they are not yet in position to make a specific product announcements, they […]

Coursera Raises $43m, LMS and MOOC Collision In Learning Platform Market

By Phil Hill. Posted on July 10, 2013

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Today Coursera announced their new round of fund raising, as reported at GigaOm: Just last year, online education startup Coursera raised $22 million in venture funding, but the Mountain View-based company is topping up its coffers once again. On Wednesday, the startup said it had raised $43 million in a Series B round of financing […]
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