While Blackboard is still losing customers domestically and likely to continue doing so over the next 12 months, there are definite signs of life.
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.
LMS Revival: D2L picking up new customers and showing they can listen
D2L has been on a roll lately, tightening the LMS market into a two-horse race with Canvas for new implementations. At their Fusion users conference, there were signs of real changes in how they listen to customers.
Google Classroom: Isolated adoptions for higher education institutions
As we expand our LMS market coverage, we have the first view of Google Classroom adoptions in higher ed. Small, but not nothing.
Academic LMS Market Share By Enrollments, Part Deux
New view of North American LMS market share, this time scaled by institutional enrollments. Second part in series.
Academic LMS Market Share By Enrollments, Part I
New view of North American and European LMS market share, this time based on enrollment bands for small, medium and large institutions
Follow-Up From Future Trends Forum Discussion On Learning Platforms
So many questions, so little time. Following up on questions from Future Trends Forum discussion with Bryan Alexander and a host of others.
Academic LMS Market Share: A view across four global regions
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.