Understanding The Competitive Landscape For Educational Technology (Technology Focus)

Publication Date	September 2007
Publisher	Datamonitor
Product Type	Brief
Pages	14
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	DAT07282

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Summary

Introduction

In response to increasingly strident demands for external accountability, education institutions are turning to educational technology as a strategy to improve instructional effectiveness.

Scope

Identifies the key drivers and inhibitors to the expanded adoption of educational technology
Suggests what features institutions will find attractive in LMS and lecture capture solutions
Identifies the key market leaders in the LMS and lecture capture solution areas

Highlights

Important factors influence the adoption of education technology.

While relatively mature and widely adopted, online learning continues to evolve.

Lecture capture solutions are an emerging solution area in higher education.

Reasons to Purchase

Gain insight into what is driving education institutions to invest in educational technology
Understand what solution features and functionality will be most important to education institutions
Identify important competitors or potential partners in the LMS and lecture capture solutions market

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Content

Catalyst
Summary
Methodology
Analysis
- Important factors influence the adoption of educational technology
- A complex set of forces drives the uptake of educational technology
- There are considerable hurdles to the more substantive adoption of educational technology
- The competitive landscape for educational technology represents an appealing opportunity for vendors
- While a relatively mature and widely adopted, online learning continues to evolve
- Online learning is supported by a diverse set of applications
- LMS solutions are increasingly used as powerful pedagogical tools
- Portfolios in LMS solutions
- Performance reporting
- A few players dominate the competitive landscape for LMS solutions
- ANGEL Learning
- Blackboard
- Desire2Learn
- eCollege
- Open source applications are an important alternative to commercial solutions
- Lecture capture applications are an emerging solution area in higher education
- Lecture capture solutions offer a pedagogically attractive extension to traditional and online courses
- Students use lecture capture solutions in potentially unexpected ways
- There are few obstacles to the more widespread adoption of lecture capture solutions
- Innovative vendors are taking an early lead in the higher education market
- Anystream
- Lectopia
- Sonic Foundry
- Tegrity
Actions
- The competitive landscape is not monolithic and considerable opportunities remain
- Reporting and analytics functionality represents an attractive area for growth
- Lecture capture solutions will become an important extension of the LMS
Appendix
- Abbreviations
- Further reading
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