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It's going to be interesting to watch how this competes with Blackboard. Anecdotally, it definitely looks like Blackboard has an almost monopoly on class room
by jpace121 12y ago
It's going to be interesting to watch how this competes with Blackboard.
Anecdotally, it definitely looks like Blackboard has an almost monopoly on class room management stuff. Since the education market is so slow to adopt new things, Google definitely has their work cut out for them.
With that being said, Blackboard definitely leaves a lot to be desired, and with classes supposedly going online more and more, the market is definitely ripe for some disruption.
- extra88 12y ago"Blackboard's market share among universities slipped to about 45 percent last year, down 26 points from six years before." And I question whether their share was really that high or just that high amongst universities that purchased a commercial LMS (as opposed to having a home-grown one, free & open source one, or no school-wide LMS at all). http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/techflash/2013/09/blackboard-layoffs.html?page=all http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/techflash/2013/09...
- natdempk 12y agoOne thing that this has going for it against Blackboard is that many universities already use Google Apps to manage their student email/accounts, so it should be a relatively smooth transition to enable access for students and teachers. As a student I would love to never have to use Blackboard again. Its UX is just awful and having a Google integrated solution seems like it would be a lot less hassle for everyone involved.