Mid-week Follow Up
Updates on Moodle Higher Ed, Fall 2025 enrollments, and post-bankruptcy Blackboard
Phil Hill
October 14, 2025
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It’s time to get back in action after the clean living and cash spending from the wedding last week. And man, kids these days know how to create those MySpace Instagram moments, don’t they?
The dude in the blue suit is not impressed.
On to a few updates on previous posts.
Moodle Higher Education
From Morgan’s post on MoodleMoot Global:
This kept getting underplayed, probably because its exact shape is still undetermined and it will arrive “soon” (where, to quote Marie, “soon is a relative term”). But it’s big in that Moodle HQ is developing a premium product for higher education.
The Moodle execs were careful to say that Moodle Higher Ed won’t be an LMS, per se.
We’ve both been digging into the information on Moodle Higher Ed to better understand what it is and what it isn’t, fueled by Morgan’s questioning whether she got that phrase right. In a nutshell, don’t get distracted - Moodle Higher Ed is an LMS to be offered as a premium product (as in, core open source Moodle will also be available for free and will be the code underneath Moodle HE).
