Tag: Market

LMS / VLE Market Share in 2021

Published 16th July 2021

Canvas: Total Domination

It’s been a long time since I published something about VLE market share, I guess because we’re all happy with Canvas at Sunderland and aren’t looking for a replacement. Nevertheless, it came up in conversation a few days ago and I had a quick DuckDuckGo out of curiosity. Looks like lots of people are pretty happy with Canvas looking at that growth curve! Alas, poor Blackboard, we knew ye well.

The data in EduTechnica’s report pertains to US HE, but from my knowledge of the UK HE community, I wouldn’t expect a UK graph to look much different.

Canvas and VLE Market Share

Published 6th April 2017

I’m finally allowed to say that Sunderland have recently chosen Canvas as our new VLE to replace the terminally ill LearningStudio. I’ve known for a while of course, but have been gagged until formalities were met and contracts signed. It’s a good decision, very forward looking; really exiting times ahead for us here.

I was having a look for their market share and I came across the latest report from EduTechnica that shows that Canvas have now overtaken Moodle to become the second most widely used LMS / VLE in the US market place, behind Blackboard which is holding on. When you look at the trends and that graph though, I can’t help but wonder how long it will be before those lines pass each other.

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I’m Sonya McChristie, a learning technologist who’s worked in UK Higher Education since 2008, coming to the profession via technical support roles in other public sector areas. Since 2014 I’ve been with the University of Sunderland’s CELT, responsible for managing a team of content developers and teaching on our PG Cert HE.

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CMALT (2024)
Senior Fellow of the HEA
PG Cert Academic Practice
Fellow of the HEA
PG Cert Leadership and Change
CMALT (2017)
MA English
Certified ScrumMaster
BA Humanities with Philosophy
CMALT (2012)
Diploma in Computing
Certificate in Humanities
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