Edsurge
MARCH 10, 2020
Blackboard, a Reston, Va.-based based provider of learning management software for K-12, higher ed, government and businesses, has agreed to sell its Open LMS business to Learning Technologies Group, or LTG, a London-based conglomerate of workplace learning software services. LTG will pay $31.7
Edsurge
APRIL 1, 2020
After ANGEL was acquired by Instructure rival Blackboard, Henderson served as president of learning platforms for Blackboard until 2013. The company’s interest in developing a data analytics service—once codenamed DIG and now known as Insights, per Benson—hasn’t gone away. They are builders,” Urdan says.
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Edsurge
DECEMBER 23, 2019
This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Instructure, then an upstart challenger to Blackboard, made its bones on two major differentiators, one of which was “usability.” Was it a good idea, for example, to turn one’s back on students to write on the board? And it showed.
edWeb.net
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
So explained Dr. Julie Evans, Chief Executive Officer of Project Tomorrow, in an edWebinar sponsored by Blackboard , examining findings from the program’s 2020 annual research project, Speak Up , for which 10,000 K-12 students nationwide shared their preferences and expectations for two-way communications with their teachers.
Edsurge
MAY 23, 2017
This annual event aims to accelerate the development and adoption of data standards that allow technologies used in schools to “talk” to one another. This sharing of data between different social apps is possible because they have a standard way of exchanging this data. The Future.
techlearning
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Dream Academy students—chosen through a mix of GPA, interview, teacher recommendations, and academic portfolio review—can graduate from high school with an associate degree in social science. They use the Blackboard platform to communicate with professors and engage fellow students in their courses.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
Today it offers 250 micro-credentials, from “Analyzing Student Misconceptions” and “Makerspace Safety” to “Foundations of Student Data Privacy” and “Writing Publicly to Influence Parents,” built by more than 20 providers using the nonprofit’s framework.
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