by The Eduventures Analyst Team at ACT | NRCCUA | Dec 10, 2019 | Adult Learner Demand, All Topics, Program Innovation, Student Success, Technology Research, Traditional Student Demand
It’s that time of year again. As has become an end-of-year tradition at Eduventures, we asked five of our analysts to reflect on a single question: “What did you learn this year? ” Some answers identify truly break-through moments in our understanding of the student...
by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Dec 3, 2019 | Adult Learner Demand, All Topics, Program Innovation, Student Success, Technology Research, Traditional Student Demand
Every year I make three predictions for higher education in the year ahead (look out for my 2020 predictions in early January). In this Wake-Up Call, we review whether my 2019 higher education predictions proved accurate or missed the mark.Back in January, I predicted...
by Michael Miller, Eduventures Senior Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Oct 29, 2019 | All Topics, Technology Research
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— student information systems that promise to...
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,...
