Thanks to the broadest view of the installed base of LMS solutions across the globe, we can see a duopoly from Moodle and Blackboard Learn.
Ed Tech
The "Ed Tech" category includes posts about educational technology products themselves, including LMSs and other learning platforms, adaptive learning and other digital curricular materials products, learning analytics, and educational apps of all types. It also includes technical aspects of ed tech products, especially interoperability.
Future Trends Forum on Thursday
Join Bryan Alexander and me for an interactive discussion on LMS and future learning platforms, Thursday June 29 at 2pm EDT.
Whither Moodle?
While Moodle has global market share that far exceeds any other academic LMS, their number of new implementations seems to be dropping off substantially across the international regions that we track.
The Case for Learning Platform Grade Book
Online grade books are expensive for ed tech companies to build, almost impossible for them to build well, and hard for faculty and students to learn. Here’s a recipe for using final and near-final interoperability standards to enable faculty and students to just use their same LMS grade book in every ed tech app.
Digital Badges Are Gaining Traction
Digital badges seem to be filling in the cracks for career readiness—and sometimes college readiness—that aren’t covered by formal degree and certificate programs.
A Flexible, Interoperable Digital Learning Platform: Are We There Yet?
Whether you call it NGDLE, an LMOS, a learning platform, or something else, people have been wanting a next-generation post-LMS for a long time. We finally have both the interoperability standards and the market incentives to make it possible—if the LMS vendors are willing to take a risk.
Barnes & Noble Education’s Predictive Analytics Deal With Unizin
Unizin and (Barnes & Noble-owned) LoudCloud have an analytics deal. Frankly, we’re still not entirely clear on what either organization is doing.