The document discusses Canvas's goal of becoming the de facto standard education platform through its open app center. It notes that currently education technology lacks integration, limited APIs, and vendor lock-in. The Canvas App Center aims to fix these issues by having an open submission process for apps, open ratings/reviews by the community, and open standards. The app center launches this week on edu-apps.org and will integrate with Canvas at InstructureCon, with pilot schools being selected now.
2. Our Mission
Fix the broken LMS market
Become the de facto standard platform for
education
3. What is a Platform?
Integrations
APIs
Community
Ecosystem
4. Canvas as a Platform
¡°We don¡¯t want to have to find all these
integrations ourselves. We want you to help
us know what is out there.¡±
5. Edtech Still Not an Ecosystem
Integrations hard to find
APIs limited
LTI is helping some
Vendor lock-in
Non-edu? Not likely
Startups not welcome
I thought we¡¯d be farther than this by now