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What’s happening in the EMEA Market?

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What’s happening in the EMEA Market?

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It’s an interesting time to be in higher Ed with an ICT remit. We’re observing the following trends: University Competitiveness • Competiton for students increasing rapidly • Education key to a strong economy & determines if graduates seek jobs abroad • World‘s leading universities (mostly in the US) setting the trend with nearly 100% Wi-Fi coverage, extremely high laptop ownership, and mandatory eLearning participation • Students demanding improved learning experience through utilisation of ICT EMEA Trends • France and Italy moving rapidly to 100% WiFi coverage, rapidly increasing laptop ownership and broadly deployed eLearning solutions • Norway and Scandinavia leads Europe in VLE adoption in Higher Ed & Schools VLE Vendors • The commercial VLE vendors are consolidating, as we’ve covered in previous market briefings, while numerous open source vendors ramp up their competitive offerings and threaten the commercial market • The big three are Blackboard, Moodle and Sakai (and the last

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