A Look Back at the Most Read Resources for Higher Education Leaders
As the summer draws to a close and institutions and their staff prepare for a new semester, Tambellini Group looks back at the research topics and resources that were the most interesting to IT leaders in higher education for the first half of the year. With modern cloud system selections on the rise in finance, […]
The Anthology and Blackboard Merger
On September 10, 2021, Anthology and Blackboard signed a definitive agreement to merge, creating the most comprehensive ecosystem across academic, administrative, and student engagement applications to date. The subsequent press release outlined most of the agreement’s public details, including: Current Anthology Chairman and CEO Jim Milton will serve as Chairman and CEO of the combined company. Anthology investors Veritas Capital and Leeds […]
An Unlikely Couple—The Moodle/Blackboard Divorce
As Blackboard struggles to retain learning management system (LMS) market share, steadily losing customers to Instructure Canvas and D2L Brightspace, Moodle announced on July 27th that their partnership with the LMS giant Blackboard was coming to an end after six years. In their press release, Martin Dougiamas, CEO and Founder of Moodle, stated, “While we […]
Modernizing the Student Experience with Marilyn Smith
Tambellini’s Alex Freeman sat down with Marilyn Smith, Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer of George Mason University (GMU), to discuss the university’s student experience redesign initiative, data warehousing, constituent relationship management (CRM), their new state-of-the-art instructional building on campus, and more. GMU is a Tambellini Member and Smith serves on the […]
