I read something really interesting on- http://www.deltainitiative.com/index.php/phils-blog/70-new-mentality-enters-lms-market
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There was a time when prospectors from around the world converged on San Francisco with picks and shovels to extract gold from the rolling hills. Today, a similar migration is taking place, though the tools have changed slightly, as servers have taken the place of shovels and a sharp resume will get you deeper into data than blasting caps through solid rock. Education startups will be the new gold rush, and Silicon Valley is sure to be at its heart. Already the epicenter of tech innovation and venture capital investment, San Francisco is poised to become heart of a new industry that will be powered by the Internet. And unlike me-too food apps and daily deals websites, education is more than a hot fad. American taxpayers invested more than $536 billion on K-12 education between 2005 and 2006, according to the U.S. Department of Education, with an additional $373 billion in taxes going to fund higher education nationwide. The educational pie is enormous, and anyone who can get his or her hands on even a small slice can expect to reap huge returns. Computers have become essential learning tool, with Internet access being discussed as a fundamental human right in some quarters.
Instructure and LoudCloud designed their systems based on market analysis and feedback, rather than by taking a single-institution project and attempting leverage into the market. Instructure was started by two graduate students who thought they could design a better LMS as a class project. Their instructor, Josh Coates (now CEO) who started and came from a successful internet startup (Mozy), encouraged the students to take their user design and shop it around to get feedback. The students did so, "Instead of starting to write code, which both of us loved doing, we took all our ideas and built them into a mocked-up version of the product in PowerPoint. Then we started calling schools. We would cold-call the CTO, CIO or the head of Instructional Design and tell them we were a new company who wanted to show our thoughts on the future of the LMS and get their feedback as well."
Both systems are built as cloud-based models leveraging third-party web services - enabling the smaller companies to compete with larger companies. In this case, the cloud approach is allowing startups such as Instructure and LoudCloud to rapidly develop their product lines and directly compete with large established competitors such as Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Pearson, and even established open source providers such as Moodle and Sakai. Both Instructure and LoudCloud sit on top of Amazon Web Services, providing scaling and reliability, while enabling both companies to focus their attention on the learning design itself.
Reference:http://www.deltainitiative.com/index.php/phils-blog/70-new-mentality-enters-lms-market
Here are few Quoted paragraphs-
There was a time when prospectors from around the world converged on San Francisco with picks and shovels to extract gold from the rolling hills. Today, a similar migration is taking place, though the tools have changed slightly, as servers have taken the place of shovels and a sharp resume will get you deeper into data than blasting caps through solid rock. Education startups will be the new gold rush, and Silicon Valley is sure to be at its heart. Already the epicenter of tech innovation and venture capital investment, San Francisco is poised to become heart of a new industry that will be powered by the Internet. And unlike me-too food apps and daily deals websites, education is more than a hot fad. American taxpayers invested more than $536 billion on K-12 education between 2005 and 2006, according to the U.S. Department of Education, with an additional $373 billion in taxes going to fund higher education nationwide. The educational pie is enormous, and anyone who can get his or her hands on even a small slice can expect to reap huge returns. Computers have become essential learning tool, with Internet access being discussed as a fundamental human right in some quarters.
Instructure and LoudCloud designed their systems based on market analysis and feedback, rather than by taking a single-institution project and attempting leverage into the market. Instructure was started by two graduate students who thought they could design a better LMS as a class project. Their instructor, Josh Coates (now CEO) who started and came from a successful internet startup (Mozy), encouraged the students to take their user design and shop it around to get feedback. The students did so, "Instead of starting to write code, which both of us loved doing, we took all our ideas and built them into a mocked-up version of the product in PowerPoint. Then we started calling schools. We would cold-call the CTO, CIO or the head of Instructional Design and tell them we were a new company who wanted to show our thoughts on the future of the LMS and get their feedback as well."
Both systems are built as cloud-based models leveraging third-party web services - enabling the smaller companies to compete with larger companies. In this case, the cloud approach is allowing startups such as Instructure and LoudCloud to rapidly develop their product lines and directly compete with large established competitors such as Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Pearson, and even established open source providers such as Moodle and Sakai. Both Instructure and LoudCloud sit on top of Amazon Web Services, providing scaling and reliability, while enabling both companies to focus their attention on the learning design itself.
Reference:http://www.deltainitiative.com/index.php/phils-blog/70-new-mentality-enters-lms-market
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