by James Wiley, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Oct 15, 2019 | All Topics, Technology Research
Just three years ago, in 2016, the Eduventures Higher Education Technology Landscape featured 518 products across 40 segments. In the 2019 report—published this past Thursday—we feature 423 products across 42 segments, a 22% reduction. Some of these changes have to do...
by James Wiley, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Aug 27, 2019 | All Topics, Technology Research
Most conversations about integration hinge on the belief that technology solutions, once integrated, will share a data flow seamlessly so that users can access and use all data held within the integrated products. Unfortunately, this belief conflates data shareability...
by James Wiley, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Jul 30, 2019 | All Topics, Technology Research
Imagine what your iPhone would be like if Steve Jobs had—according to Walter Isaacson’s biography—succeeded in disallowing the open-platform App Store. We wouldn’t have edtech platforms like today. How long would it have taken before we had apps to stream music,...
by James Wiley, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Jun 25, 2019 | All Topics, Technology Research
It would not be surprising if anyone reviewing the world of higher education technology ended up with a headache: companies make conflicting claims about their products, many products have overlapping functionality, and it is not always clear what different product...
by James Wiley, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Jun 4, 2019 | All Topics, Technology Research
Once a year, we undertake the always interesting (but often headache-inducing) task of reviewing hundreds of unique and inventive technology products in the higher education market and classifying each of them into a single category. For the first time, we will...
