In the fast-evolving educational landscape, online program management supports colleges and universities in launching their programs online. Today, it can mean the difference between surviving and disappearing from the market. And more and more universities are joining the surge each year. According to Eduventures’ research (2017), the OPM market exploded in recent years....
Although “the new normal” has revealed the benefits of online learning in all their glory, students were already reaping the rewards of distance learning for quite some time. But it wasn’t until the recent crisis that online education gained mainstream acceptance. People began taking courses in various subjects, from computer science to cooking, whether...
The acronym LMS stands for Learning Management System. But the phrase doesn’t even begin to explain the world of benefits this brings for education. Let’s start with the somewhat unusual definition of LMS and try to comprehend its value through numbers. For starters, LMS is the foundation of an industry that has recorded...
Yes, the Student Record Management System is an automation tool that organizes, safeguards, and maintains educational databases. But it’s also many other things, and its precise definition will depend on who’s using it. To academic institutions, it’s an instrument for meeting the needs of students. To administrators, it’s a means of bypassing the...
In the early 1990ies, when the first LMS saw the light of the day, nobody could really imagine its skyrocketing evolution. And here we are today, unable to conceive modern education without the support of an efficient learning management system. The LMSs and other instructional technologies now help some 41.7% of global Fortune 500...
Although the Student Information System (SIS) is a means of facilitating education, the saturated ed-tech market often seems confusing, to the point where we can no longer understand just what these tools precisely do. So here are some back-to-basics explanations. If you’re making the purchasing decisions for a faculty or any other educational institution,...
A student information system is, by definition, a data management tool that synchronizes all management processes in an educational institution. Its purpose is to gather various data and integrate it into a single centralized operating system. Not so long ago, handling student information meant keeping records manually or buying expensive equipment. But with the...
Throughout history, there is a recurring pattern indicating that any large scale crisis evokes tectonic shifts in society. The one we had a chance to witness recently was global transfer to remote teaching due to the COVID19 pandemic. The whole process was fueled by the global phenomena of digitizing every industry and aspect of our...
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