It gives me great pleasure to announce that Audrey Watters will be guest blogging on e-Literate. Audrey’s Hack Education blog is one of the smartest ed tech blogs that I know of and one of the few that I read religiously. I am delighted to have her perspective and professionalism added to the mix of […]
Sakai OAE 1.0 Released
I’m a little late reporting this, but the Sakai community has released the long-awaited 1.0 version of its Open Academic Environment platform (formerly known as Sakai 3). Here’s an overview: As you’ll see, it takes a very different approach from conventional LMSs. It doesn’t yet have some of the core features of an LMS either […]
Rethinking Assumptions: Part 2
In my last post, I wrote about a new application category that has grown out of the need for textbook companies to re-imagine their traditional product for the Digital Age. I suggested that the perspective that these companies bring to digital learning environments contrasts markedly to those of traditional LMS developers. Consequently, they are bringing […]
New Mentality Entering LMS Market
This is a guest post by Phil Hill from Delta Initiative, follow on Twitter @PhilOnEdTech or his blog Since 2008 I have been sharing with clients the observation that the current generation of LMS solutions were conceived and designed circa 1996 – 2004. This timeframe was eons ago in terms of technology and business models. Furthermore, the […]
3 Surprising LMS Market Observations
This is a guest post by Phil Hill from Delta Initiative, follow on Twitter @PhilOnEdTech or his blog In a recent post, I argued that Blackboard is most likely losing at least 150 clients per year in their LMS core business. This is part of my larger argument that the LMS market is changing significantly. The reason […]
Rethinking Assumptions: Part 1
I have long promised that I would clear some time to write about what I’m learning from my new job at Cengage. Well, finally, this post is my first installment. Coming at the design of digital learning environments from a textbook publisher’s perspective has been enlightening in several respects. First, in the world of the […]
The Datatel-SunGard Higher Education Merger
This is a guest post from Jim Farmer, Chairman of Sigma Systems, Inc. [Editor’s note: I have had this post from Jim for a while now and am only now getting a chance to publish it. Apologies to Jim and to you.] On August 4th Hellman-Friedman LLC filed with the Security and Exchange Commission a […]