All higher education leaders face a critical challenge: determining the right technology tools to support the student journey. They strive to create a harmonious edtech ecosystem, selecting and arranging these tools to address various needs.
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Understanding the Enterprise and Point Solutions Balance
A commonly held belief is that the enterprise solution is more valuable than the point solution. Indeed, multi-purpose solutions, such as the Student Information System (SIS), can allow schools to simplify their ecosystems by addressing many needs with one system—avoiding complex integrations across solutions that address only one requirement.
Technologies that Support the Student Journey: Five Vendors to Watch
As we enter 2023, our conversations with higher education leaders have become increasingly focused on how to best support the student journey: improving support for admissions, bettering onboarding, and streamlining transfer student pathways, for example.
How We Can Improve Technology Selection Through Exploratory Data Analysis
A recent survey by Educause noted that median technology spend among colleges and universities in fiscal year 2021 was $7.7 million, with nearly one-third of respondents saying that they plan to increase this amount in the following year.
Finding Patterns in Teaching and Learning Technology Implementation Trends during COVID-19
Technology implementations related to teaching and learning increased during the pandemic, with a combined annual growth rate of 14% between 2019 and 2021.
What Can Vendor Acquisitions Tell Us About the Future of Edtech?
We all want to predict the future. When it comes to the future of higher education technology, many of us look to market activity for clues. For example, some see Anthology's acquisition of Blackboard and the $2 billion purchase of Instructure by the private equity...