Category: Learning
LMS Market Share – Blackboard is Leading for Now
Source: http://listedtech.com/lms-providers-market-share-implementation-year/
Keep in mind that Blackboard (BB) growth has been through acquisitions. This has proven to be an effective strategy for BB because changing from one LMS to another is one of the most challenging IT task an institution can take on. The chart above points to % of LMS implementation and shows just how quickly Canvas has grown and continues to grow.
The chart below reveals the total market share and provides a better perspective the dominant players in this space. While BB is still the market leader their growth has almost stopped and ask Moodle and Canvas continue to grow it will more than likely be at the expense of BB market share.
Source: http://listedtech.com/lms-providers-market-share-implementation-year/
If I were D2L I would be very concerned about Canvas and Moodle because D2L no longer is a compelling alternative to BB. Having worked with all these LMS at a variety of institutions I am not surprised to see Canvas grow. It really does provide a genuine alternative to the traditional LMSs BB, Moodle and D2L.
How Would Today’s Smartest Teens Redesign Education?
During last summer’s Exponential Youth Camp (XYC) pilot at Singularity University 14 of the world’s brightest teenagers were asked to redesign the future of education. They recommended:
- Make it about ME – Personalization is necessary to compete in today’s intricately specialized world.
- Let’s DO things – Across the board, the teens wanted opportunities to demonstrate knowledge through real-world application, not scantrons.
- Don’t ditch me in an online course – students simply desired guidance in navigating the material.
- Be my coach – Students still want great teachers.
- Teach me relevant skills – opportunities to build more practical skills like teamwork, problem solving and conflict resolution
- Foster a growth mindset – education should make people confident in their ability to learn anything.
Top 10 Higher Ed IT Issues of 2016
Image credit: http://www.ubertas.co.uk/blog/5-it-predictions-you-need-to-know-about
Tis the start of the season for predictions. At the recent EDUCAUSE conference in Indianapolis in October a panel of leaders came up with a list of 10 IT issues that will be important to address in 2016. The following is a comparisons of the 2016 list with 2015 as one can see many of the issues are despite having different formal labels are very similar:
2015 Optimizing technology in teaching and learning and 2016 Optimizing educational technology
| 2015 | 2016 |
| 1. Evolving staffing models | 1. Information security |
| 2. Optimizing technology in teaching and learning | 2. Optimizing educational technology |
| 3. Funding IT strategically | 3. Student success technologies |
| 4. Improving student outcomes | 4. IT workforce |
| 5. Demonstrating IT’s value | 5. Institutional data management |
| 6. Increasing capacity for change | 6. IT funding models |
| 7. Providing user support | 7. Business intelligence and analytics |
| 8. Developing security policies for the institution | 8. Enterprise application integrations |
| 9. Developing enterprise IT architecture | 9. IT organizational development |
| 10. Balancing information security and openness | 10. E-learning and online education |
Elearning has been a top priority on many lists since the late 1990 so perhaps this year Educational IT will finally get this priority sorted out.