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LMS Market Share Trends 2011-2014, Part I | e-Literate
If you read what the majority of sell-side financial analysts1 are writing, you may see the claim that “open source” is not putting a major dent in Blackboard. If you talk to Moodle or Sakai advocates, you might hear that they are crushing the company in sales. Neither account is really capturing what’s happening in the market, so I’m going to try to explain what we know about what’s really going on in a two-part series. In this post, I’ll talk about what the data are telling us so far about the recent shifts in the market, describe how colleges and universities come to decide that they need to go to market for an LMS, and assess the degree to which we may see an uptick in the number of schools that decide to look around and evaluate our options.
Announcing: Contact Summit Oct 20 in NYC « emergent by design
The Lottery Mentality – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com
Americans actually live in Russia, although they think they live in Sweden. And they would like to live on a kibbutz. This isn’t the set-up for some sort of politically incorrect Catskills stand-up joke circa 1960. It is the takeaway from a remarkable study by Michael Norton and Dan Ariely on how Americans think about income inequality.
Virginia rethinks limits on student-teacher policy | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
The latest proposal says school division policies “should ensure that electronic and online communications between employees, volunteers and individual students are transparent, accessible to supervisors and parents, and professional in content and tone.” It lists factors to consider when determining whether an electronic interaction is appropriate, but it doesn’t forbid specific tools or online platforms.
