by Sara Grossman, Chronicle of Higher Ed
Instructure, a company that sells course-management software, announced on Wednesday that it had won $30-million in venture-capital funds, and some observers said the company was gaining ground on Blackboard, which has long dominated the market for learning-management systems, or LMS. The choice of which software a college uses to manage class activity—for both online and in-person courses—has become increasingly competitive in recent years, said Casey Green, director of the Campus Computing Project, which conducts an annual survey of campus-technology leaders. He said that a few years ago Blackboard controlled about 70 percent of the market, but by 2012 it had only around 45 percent.
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