{"id":8093,"date":"2018-09-20T14:44:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T18:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/?p=8093"},"modified":"2018-09-21T10:00:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T14:00:49","slug":"blackboard-reports-surprisingly-strong-growth-among-open-source-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/blackboard-reports-surprisingly-strong-growth-among-open-source-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackboard Reports Surprisingly Strong Growth Among Open-Source Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Blackboard, once the world\u2019s largest proprietary learning management system (LMS) provider, announced on Wednesday that, following its split with Moodle, the company would be rebranding its open source SaaS service provider Moodlerooms as Blackboard Open LMS. At the tail end of the release, Blackboard Chief Portfolio Officer Kathy Vieira, said something astonishing:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;This rebrand marks a new chapter for our open-source SaaS product, where we&#8217;re realigning the solution with our overall mission to meet the evolving needs of institutions and their learners. Over the past year, we&#8217;ve seen a 20% growth in Blackboard Open LMS clients and are adding more than one new client per business day. We have a vested interest in continuing to contribute code and features back to the open-source\u00a0community\u2014and working to\u00a0move the community forward together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Wait, What?<\/h1>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">In other words, the company that made it big in the post-dotcom crash desert selling their proprietary LMS solutions is now gaining market share on the open-source end of the spectrum. Profit comes in by taking care of the heavy lifting involved in deploying their open-source LMS instead of licensing the product itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Earlier this summer, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/instructure-reports-30-year-over-year-revenue-growth\/\">Canvas by Instructure<\/a> officially edged out Blackboard Learn as the most widely used LMS in the U.S., as reported by E-Literate. The former beat out the latter by a margin of 2 institution installs, with the scoreboard reading Blackboard: 1,216 Canvas: 1,218. That statistically gave both companies a market share of 28%. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Blackboard\u2019s market share once stood at 70% when it acquired WebCT in 2006. E-Literate\u2019s Michael Feldstein writes how, at the time, \u201cA few platforms, most of which no longer exist, were vying with &#8220;homegrown&#8221; to become the Dr. Pepper of the LMS market at the time that the Coke acquired the Pepsi.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">For years, Blackboard dominated by acquiring their competition, like WebCT and later ANGEL. When that didn\u2019t work, <a href=\"https:\/\/campustechnology.com\/articles\/2008\/02\/blackboard-wins-lawsuit-against-desire2learn.aspx\"><span class=\"s2\">they aggressively sued other companies into submission<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">These strongman tactics no longer translate into a viable survival strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8097\" src=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/screen-shot-2018-09-20-at-2.45.31-pm.png\" alt=\"lms market share courtesy of e-literate\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Once public, Blackboard was brought private when it was acquired by Providence Equity Partners. The public, therefore, does not have access to any juicy details of business goings-on that can be found in 10Ks, quarterly reports, or investor relations documents. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">But it isn\u2019t difficult to tell which way the wind is blowing. Campus newspapers across the U.S. almost unequivocally describe how, following the end of their contract with Blackboard, they will be switching to Canvas, Moodle, Brightspace, or someone else. In the past month, readers have heard it from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2018\/09\/cornell-switch-blackboard-canvas\"><span class=\"s2\">Cornell<\/span><\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strosechronicle.com\/fresh\/canvas-saint-roses-move-to-a-new-digital-environment\/\"><span class=\"s2\">College of St. Rose<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studlife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/23\/university-phases-out-blackboard-introduces-canvas\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Washington University<\/span><\/a>, and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">These stories have appeared perennially for the past few years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">So Blackboard is bleeding proprietary institutional use, but the volume and rate of blood loss is unclear. Their growth in the open-source sector, however, might be more than a band-aid.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Blackboard and Moodle Part Ways<\/h1>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The news follows the breakup between Blackboard and Moodle earlier this summer, which <i>Inside Higher Ed <\/i>described as \u201cmessy.\u201d At one time, it appeared that <a href=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/moodle-the-ideological-online-education-provider-finds-a-conscientious-investor\/\">Moodle<\/a>, a free, open-source LMS provider, would stand as Blackboard\u2019s most viable competitor. In 2012, the company struck a partnership with the organization and acquired their service arms Moodlerooms and NetSpot, the Australian counterpart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">It was apparently a wise investment on Blackboard\u2019s part. We truly live in interesting times. And if the company continues to sign a Blackboard Open LMS client on a daily basis, Canvas might not remain on top for long.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Featured Image: Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackboard, once the world\u2019s largest proprietary learning management system (LMS) provider, announced on Wednesday that, following its split with Moodle, the company would be rebranding it\u2019s open source SaaS service provider Moodlerooms as Blackboard Open LMS. At the tail end of the release, Blackboard Chief Portfolio Officer Kathy Vieira, said something astonishing:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[6732],"class_list":["post-8093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-picks","category-industry-news","tag-lms"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blackboard Reports Surprisingly Strong Growth Among Open-Source Clients - eLearningInside News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"At the tail end of the release, Blackboard Chief Portfolio Officer Kathy Vieira, said something astonishing.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/blackboard-reports-surprisingly-strong-growth-among-open-source-clients\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blackboard Reports Surprisingly Strong Growth Among Open-Source Clients - 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