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Speak Up 2020: A look at digital learning and transformation

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For the last seven months of 2020, school districts have gone through extreme changes regarding how learning is happening in pandemic-induced hybrid and digital learning environments. Digital learning during the pandemic. It was also evident in the research that teachers were using more digital content than before.

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The pandemic is boosting student-directed learning

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The final report, “ Sponsoring Student Ownership of Learning ,” examines how the pandemic is fueling a shift toward student-directed learning and how digital and mobile tools will likely remain a key part of the classroom even after students return to in-person instruction.

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Blackboard launches New Learning Experience platform

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Integrated platform enables personalized learning, streamlined communication with family and community engagement, and unified workflows. We are proud to unveil the K-12 New Learning Experience Platform,” said Stephanie Weeks, Vice President of K-12 Strategy for Blackboard. We haven’t purchased a text book in six years.

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Blackboard unveils totally redesigned learning platform

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Learning approach aims to bring a learner-centric focus to education. Blackboard is launching a new platform, called the New Learning Experience, which aims to bring together all of its various products and services under one roof, with the goal of making it seem more focused on students and learners, not administrators.

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Startup Class Technologies Bets Big on the Future of Online Learning (and Zoom)

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Chasen is a familiar figure in edtech: he co-founded Blackboard, one of the largest providers of learning management systems to colleges and schools, and served as its CEO for years. Because it's a downloadable app, his team had to create separate versions of Class for Windows, Chrome, Mac OS and several mobile operating systems.

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Speak Up 2020 Congressional Briefing: Release of the National Research Findings

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Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow, and Christina Fleming, Vice President of Blackboard K12, presented the Speak Up 2019-2020 National Findings titled Digital Learning During the Pandemic: Emerging Evidence of an Education Transformation. Digital Learning During the Pandemic.

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How the pandemic is driving a shift in student-directed learning

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The final report, “ Sponsoring Student Ownership of Learning ,” examines how the pandemic is fueling a shift toward student-directed learning and how digital and mobile tools will likely remain a key part of the classroom even after students return to in-person instruction.