Educause releases 2002 Core Data Survey (IT in Higher Ed)

http://www.educause.edu/coredata/reports/2002/

Actual Educause members will have seen this ages ago, but for the rest of us, the latest summary of their survey of trends in IT in post-secondary has just been released.

Things I found to be of interest:

• in the area of course management systems, 72% of all institutions report supporting one or more commercial CMS,
  6% support one or more homegrown CMS, and
  80% report that CMS used selectively by faculty (versus a ‘blanket’ approach
• their report on CMS market share was slightly surprising to me; overall, the most common CMS was Blackboard with 42.5% market share over WebCT’s 33.5%
• 52% of institutions report having instructional designers who work with technologists, while only 18% of institutions reported having instructional technologists who were also discipline specialists
• on the web portal front, only 27% of institutions report having deployed a web portal

I also found the section on IT’s strategies for acquiring information systems to be very interesting, and should be useful information for open source advocates working within academia. Lots of useful stuff to digest here. – SWL