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Hundreds of universities have lent their names to online programs, plugging budgets but alienating students who feel misled.

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Navigating Digital Transformation: Why SIS is the North Star for Higher Education Leaders

by Dr. Joe Sallustio      September 2, 2024

Imagine, for a moment, that one single decision could affect enrollment, retention, registration, course scheduling, course management ability, student accounts, financial aid processing, student experience, outcomes tracking, data visibility, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence adoption, or any other area on the mind of today’s higher education leader.  This trajectory-defining decision is often overlooked, the impacts misunderstood, and the consequences of a bad decision are dire.

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Cash-Strapped Wittenberg U. Envisions a Future With Far Fewer Faculty and Staff

Wittenberg University likely can’t continue operating much longer without deep budget cuts. But the kinds of cuts being considered at the small Ohio institution are causing faculty and some alumni to argue that closure might be better.

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An Education Chatbot Company Collapsed. Where Did the Student Data Go?

The sudden shelving of an ambitious AI chatbot at Los Angeles Unified School District highlights a key challenge for AI projects: corralling data.

By Jeffrey R. Young     Jul 15, 2024

This article is part of the collection: How AI Is Impacting Teaching and Learning.

When Los Angeles Unified School District launched a districtwide AI chatbot nicknamed “Ed” in March, officials boasted that it represented a revolutionary new tool that was only possible thanks to generative AI — a personal assistant that could point each student to tailored resources and assignments and playfully nudge and encourage them to keep going.

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Turmoil Surrounds LA’s New AI Student Chatbot as Tech Firm Furloughs Staff Just 3 Months After Launch

AllHere’s CEO has left & employees have been sidelined as the company’s board cites a dire 'financial position.' The 'Ed' AI tool launched March 20.

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Los Angeles School District Launched a Splashy AI Chatbot. What Exactly Does It Do?

By Jeffrey R. Young     May 2, 2024

This article is part of the collection: How AI Is Impacting Teaching and Learning.

Balloon archways surrounded the stage as the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, Alberto Carvalho, last month announced what he hailed as a pioneering use of artificial intelligence in education. It’s a chatbot called “Ed” — an animated talking sun — which he described as: “our nation’s very first AI-powered learning-acceleration platform.”

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Students Distancing From Distance Learning

The drop has academics cautioning against going all in on online courses.

By  Lauren Coffey

The number of students participating in online learning is continuing a post-pandemic decline, new enrollment data show.

In the 2022–23 academic year, a little over half of U.S. students—53 percent—were enrolled in at least one online course, according to National Center for Education Statistics data released last week. That dipped from 2021’s fall enrollment, which counted 59 percent of students online in some way.

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Community Colleges Primed For, but Struggling With, Tech Adoption

With working students desperate for flexibility and employers seeking tech skills, online learning is in high demand. So why are community colleges struggling to provide it?

By  Sara Weissman and Lauren Coffey

As the dean of online learning at Portland Community College, it’s hard for Heather Guevara to overstate her college’s reliance on technology, especially post-pandemic.

Professors at the Oregon institution and at other community colleges across the country are no longer simply lecturing in their courses. They’re now incorporating videos and expecting students to engage in online discussion. Students are also accessing online courses while on campus, along with email and online learning portals.

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Blackboard, Anthology to Merge, Creating Ed-Tech Behemoth

Combined entity will work with thousands of colleges across administrative and academic departments.

By  Doug Lederman

Anthology, which emerged a year ago from the combination of three higher education administrative software firms, will merge with Blackboard, long the most visible company in learning technology, the two companies announced today. The deal will result in the end of Blackboard as a freestanding company, and could bring the end of its well-known, and sometimes controversial, brand.

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Colleges Turned To Software to Catch Cheaters During the Pandemic — So Why Are Some Schools Banning It?

Activists see the controversy as an opportunity to reshape the way schools assess students.

By Jillian Berman       Last Updated: May 30, 2021 at 12:05 p.m. ET
 
Last spring, as college faculty across the country were forced to make dozens of decisions in a matter of days about what elements of their in-person courses could be translated into Zoom rooms, administrators at the University of Michigan-Dearborn made at least one choice for them: The environment in which students would be tested. 

CPP Prepares for Blackboard to Canvas Switch

By Allen Valdez, Jan. 26, 2021

Cal Poly Pomona will switch learning management systems from Blackboard to Canvas, as announced last month. The transition will begin in the summer 2021 term when instructors will be given the option to use Canvas before the campus fully transitions to the new service in the fall 2021 term.

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Learning management systems are more important than ever

The pandemic has accelerated universities’ reliance on these critical online systems.

By Diane Peters

Somehow, last spring, teaching and learning staff at the University of Saskatchewan found the time to make a big decision: the university would migrate its learning management system, or LMS, from Blackboard Learn to Canvas. Back in the fall of 2019, the university had narrowed its search to two competing systems. Consultations and tests wrapped up before the university went into lockdown due to the pandemic, and in May 2020 it had signed with Instructure, the Salt Lake City company that offers Canvas.

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CT Virtual Summit to Consider Impact of the Remote Campus Experience

By Rhea Kelly      Sept. 29, 2020

As colleges and universities navigate the ever-shifting challenges of higher education's "new normal," they are also looking ahead: How can the lessons learned from the pandemic redefine teaching and learning moving forward? And how can the technology decisions made today impact the future?

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Cayuse Announces Another Year of Record Growth, Strategic Acquisitions, and Industry-Leading Product Innovation 

February 06, 2020

PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 06, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cayuse is pleased to announce that in 2019, the company doubled new business revenue and new customers while adding dozens of new employees in its Portland headquarters and across North America. New customers joining the Cayuse family of over 350 total customers included international institutions such as the National University of Singapore, North American universities such as Texas A&M University and West Chester University, and healthcare customers like Denver Health who leverage Cayuse to support their mission of providing the highest quality of healthcare. 

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Do Student Information Systems Need a Tuneup?

Evolutions in the student journey prompt institutions to rethink legacy student information systems.
 
by Michael Miller

Imagine you are at a higher education conference and several attendees from IBM take the stage. They have big news. They announce that they have developed something called the University and College Information System: a system that promises to provide “a total approach to the information needs of all elements of the institution.”

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PowerSchool to Acquire Schoology, Pairing Major K-12 LMS and SIS Providers

By Tony Wan     Oct 24, 2019

PowerSchool has reached an agreement to acquire Schoology, a provider of learning management systems with a sizable footprint among K-12 schools and districts.

If approved, the pending acquisition would mark the latest puzzle piece that PowerSchool has purchased this decade. Founded in 1997, Powerschool was first bought by Apple in 2001, and then by Pearson in 2006. The publisher sold the PowerSchool to private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in June 2015. Onex, another private equity firm, invested in PowerSchool in 2018 and shares equal equity ownership with Vista.

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Illuminate to Sunset Student Information System in 2021

By Wade Tyler Millward     Sep 25, 2019

Illuminate Education will stop support for its student information system in two years, before the 2021 school year. In an email sent Tuesday morning, the company notified customers to plan for a replacement for the Illuminate Student Information product, also known as ISI.

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Blackboard, Moodle End Partnership. But Just Who Dumped Whom?

by Andy Medici      Jul 27, 2018

The news comes as the company struggles with a high amount of debt, according to Moody's.

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Canvas Chases Blackboard Learn For Lead LMS Spot

By Josh Moody, Contributor.       Jul 14, 2018

In the competitive and crowded marketplace for learning management systems, Blackboard Learn may have lost the lead.

According to technology blog, e-Literate, Blackboard Learn and Canvas are now tied, each controlling 28% of the LMS market. Blackboard once controlled 70% of the LMS market in the U.S. and Canada, noted the blog’s author (and MindWires partner), Michael Feldstein, who cited data provided by ListEdTech.

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Canvas Edges Out Blackboard in LMS Market Share

For the first time, Canvas eclipsed Blackboard as the most popular learning management system for U.S. colleges and universities.

BY        JULY 11, 2018

Canvas has dethroned Blackboard as the leading learning management system (LMS) for the U.S. higher education system, according to a new report out from MindWires Consulting.

The eclipse marks a major market shift, as Blackboard had been the leading U.S. LMS for roughly two decades.

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Don't Count Schoology Out

By Henry Kronk          June 26, 2018

For years, nearly decades, the learning management system (LMS) sector was a polarized ecosystem. Numerous startups fought for a limited pool while Blackboard, one of the few survivors of the Dotcom edtech boom, dominated with myriad longterm contracts and the ability to acquire or sink relevant competition. That changed a few years ago when Canvas by Instructure came on the scene. But in 2018, it appears a new competitor may be on the horizon. So far this year, Schoology has signed contracts with 157 K-12 institutions which collectively teach over 850,000 learners.

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