This month's edition of The Pulse podcast features a conversation with Mark Max, vice president of Blackboard Analytics for Learn.

In the interview with Rodney B. Murray, host of the Pulse, Max discusses how the product combines data from Blackboard Learn with student and course information from student information systems, and how students, professors and administrators use the data. Blackboard Analytics was formerly iStrategy.

The Pulse is Inside Higher Ed's monthly technology podcast, produced by Murray, executive director of the office of academic technology at University of the Sciences.