Our latest LMS market report is out, and with it the semi-annual update of the famous squid graph.
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.
Movement of Canvas LMS to Global Markets
Almost 30% of Instructure’s higher ed LMS new implementations are international now, with particularly strong growth in Europe.
Recommended Reading … or Not: Updates on UC Berkeley and NBER stories
We have a better understanding of UC Berkeley’s decision to remove free video lecture captures in response to an accessibility suit. Less so on Caroline Hoxby’s problematic paper on the ROI of online learning.
Recommended Reading: Ballmer group publishes “Annual Report” on government spending
This is an interesting model for transparency in government, with some good data on public education expenditures as a bonus.
Lumen and Follett: Canary in the Curricular Materials Coal Mine?
The investment by one of the US’s largest textbook distributors in an OER company portends a larger shift in the curricular materials markets.
Some Notes On Lumen Learning’s $3.75 million Funding Round Led By Follett
OER implementation gets a major investor with a lot of leverage in the market.
Cengage and OER Podcast Series: Two steps forward and one step back
Cengage seems both serious and honest in their ongoing attempts to understand the growing role of OER in the curricular materials market, but they are still climbing the learning curve.