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Blackboard Learn Ultra in 2018: Is it ready and does it matter?

By Phil Hill. Posted on September 12, 2018

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Asking and updating a three-year-old question about an important LMS development.

D2L Bets on The Cloud and Advances in User Experience

By Phil Hill. Posted on June 8, 2018

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D2L continues to improve the LMS user experience and move to cloud hosting in a manner quite different than Blackboard’s move to Learn Ultra.

Schoology Layoffs: Focusing on smaller higher ed opportunities

By Phil Hill. Posted on January 23, 2017

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We’ve noticed and had several people ask us about corporate changes at Schoology, the LMS vendor. More specifically, the questions have been based on whether they are laying off staff, and what that means for the higher ed LMS market. Short answers – yes to the layoffs, and the company will be more selective on […]

Schoology: The strongest LMS you’ve never seen

By Phil Hill. Posted on August 10, 2016

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LMS evaluations are typically painful ordeals for not just committee members but also for the vendors. They have to provide multiple demos, have lots of Q&A, and write 100+ page proposals based on extensive feature requirements and perhaps even more painful terms and conditions. But there is one case that might be worse – not […]

About The Blackboard Partnership With IBM And Amazon Web Services

By Phil Hill. Posted on July 13, 2016

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Leading into BbWorld16, Blackboard’s annual users conference in the air conditioned bunker of The Venetian in Las Vegas, the company announced that they were partnering with IBM. Blackboard Inc. and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a collaborative agreement for IBM to manage Blackboard’s datacenters and cloud infrastructure. The two companies will also work together to […]

Clarification on Cloud, SaaS and Multi-tenant Language

By Phil Hill. Posted on September 10, 2012

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In several recent posts I have argued about the importance of cloud-based platforms, and Michael Feldstein has written some insightful analysis on the subject. Quite often the terms Cloud and SaaS (software as a service) are misunderstood, or at least used differently as the terms get redefined, which is common in technology markets. Last week I wrote […]
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