Article of the Week – Almanac of Higher Education 2012 (The Chronicle of Higher Education) –

This is an online resources produced by The Chronicle of Higher Education that highlight trends in the higher education marketplace. The technology section is featured below and some interesting facts include:

• Blackboard’s share of the Learning Management systems dropped to 50.6% in 2011 from 57.1% in 2010
• 42.6% is the number of university presidents already using iPads in 2011
• 1% of college bookstore revenue came from e-books in 2011-12
• 55% of students owned smartphones in 2011

http://chronicle.com/article/Almanac-2012-Technology/133769/?f-nav – Technology

http://chronicle.com/section/Almanac-of-Higher-Education/615/ - Almanac of Higher Education 2012 (main page)