Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

The Sakai Project, an effort to build a community-source learning-management system as an alternative to commercial systems like Blackboard, started with great fanfare and grant support in 2004—but its use has shrunk to less than 3 percent of the LMS market in North America in 2018, according to a report by e-Literate.

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Software Digital Learning Sakai Learning 148

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure. Working closely with partners, I spent the years from 1993 to 2004 starting and leading a handful of technology startups. In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In.

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 143

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MAY 2, 2017

Once upon a time the learning-management system (or LMS) was a new idea. To mark the 20th anniversary of Blackboard, one of the first LMSes, the company’s co-founder, Matthew Pittinsky, wrote an epic blog post about the company’s history, which includes his advice for today’s edtech leaders. The idea was simple.

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Blackboard Company Pearson LMS 83