College Registrar Creates the ‘Yelp’ of Higher-Education Software

Education technology now has its own version of popular, user-generated review sites like Yelp and Amazon.

Mark A. Baker, associate registrar at Whitworth University, in Spokane, Wash., last week made public Software PhD, which is designed to allow educators and vendors to exchange frank, constructive views about education software.

Mr. Baker says the website was born out of his own committee work in researching and vetting software purchases at Whitworth. The work typically involved sales pitch...