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EdTech Companies Talk Emerging Trends
By Jeff Alderson, Principal Analyst Welcome to the Eduventures Tech Alert, the technology-focused section of the Wake-Up Call that highlights companies to watch, new product announcements, and notable...
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How Safe is Your Student Data? Data Privacy Implications for Higher Education
By Jeff Alderson, Principal Analyst In July of 2013, hackers stole the identity information of more than 72,000 people from the University of Delaware’s systems. Costs to the university are estimated...
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GlobalHealth Education’s Unique, Student-Centered Approach to Online Program...
By Max Woolf, Senior Analyst As part of extensive research we are conducting on the broader online program management (OPM) market, we recently spoke with Wendy Morales, Senior Vice President of...
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Are You Safeguarding Student Data? Data Privacy Implications for Higher...
By Jeff Alderson, Principal Analyst As parents opt their college-bound children out of standardized testing and assessment vendors analyze social data streams to prevent cheating, a chill is falling...
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Behind the (Not So) Hidden EdTech Agenda
By Brian Fleming, Senior Analyst Events like the ASU+GSV Summit remind us that edtech is no longer a “wild west” of fringe ideas, disruptive innovations, and nice-to-have solutions. A large and...
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When Salesforce Ships Off to Boston
By Jeff Alderson, Principal Analyst On April 9, Salesforce held its World Tour kickoff in Boston, and Eduventures was there to take part in the spectacle that is now being called a “mini Dreamforce”...
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Insights from the Goldman Sachs/Harvard University Global Education Conference
By Brian Fleming, Senior Analyst This past week, Eduventures attended the Goldman Sachs/Harvard University Global Education Conference, two days of presentations and moderated discussions among a...
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Building Brighter Spaces through Acquisition and Integration
By Jeff Alderson, Principal Analyst Eduventures recently attended the Brightspace FUSION conference in Orlando, hosted by parent company D2L. The conference location enticed me to extend my trip...
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The Real Vision Behind the New Blackboard
By Brian Fleming, Senior Analyst Look out, world—Blackboard is back. Or is it? Coming on the heels of last week’s annual BbWorld conference in DC, the world’s largest and most recognizable ed-tech...
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How Important Are Students to Student Retention?
By Max Woolf, Senior Analyst Over the last several weeks, we have been conducting extensive research on retention solutions to help higher education leaders make sense of this expanding and crowded...
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Educational Intelligence Should Be In Your Vocabulary
By Max Woolf, Senior Analyst Not familiar with “educational intelligence?” That’s because Eduventures just coined the term to define an approach to addressing the key challenges facing institutions...
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By Jeff Alderson, Principal Analyst @eduventuresjeff When an institution acquires a new learning management system (LMS), it can reasonably expect to meet only 80% of its total teaching and learning...
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In Search of the Killer Mobile App, Part 1: Will LMS Vendors Lead the Way for...
By Jeff Alderson, Principal Analyst @eduventuresjeff You can read Part 2 of this post, “Killer Apps in The Wild (aka App-nado)” right here. Think of the last time you told a coworker about an app, one...
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In Search of the Killer Mobile App, Part 2: Killer Apps in the Wild (aka...
By Jeff Alderson, Principal Analyst @eduventuresjeff In our last Tech Alert, we introduced our search for a killer mobile app for higher education. We found that—despite all the apps that LMS vendors...
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First Quarter Vendor Highlights
By Jeff Alderson, Principal Analyst @eduventuresjeff Now that we are into the second quarter of 2016, we wanted to look back at our conversations with edtech vendors since the start of the year....
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Forging Partnerships in the Sun: 6 Companies to Watch
By James Wiley, Principal Analyst This week, Eduventures and many others from edtech companies, VC firms, and colleges and universities across the country attended the annual ASU GSV Summit in San...
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Navigating Information Security Compliance
By James Wiley, Principal Analyst In 2011, the Ponemon Institute estimated that the worldwide education and research sector spends nearly $7 million annually to comply with privacy and security...
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The Changing Role of the Modern One-Stop Shop Service Center
By Jeff Alderson, Principal Analyst @eduventuresjeff For the past several years, Eduventures has covered the one-stop shop (OSS) model for integrated student services. In addition to defining OSS and...
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Building a (Case for a) Coalition
By Jeff Alderson, Principal Analyst @eduventuresjeff With another application season nearly behind us, next year’s race to gain or retain market share of admissions applications is heating up. As a new...
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Two Foundational Steps to Improving Data Quality
By James Wiley, Principal Analyst Institutions facing data quality issues often respond like teenagers first experiencing acne. After the swell of immediate anxiety subsides, they reach for a simple...
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