Edsurge
MARCH 10, 2020
Blackboard, a Reston, Va.-based As part of the deal, LTG will resell Blackboard products integrated with Open LMS. LTG bought the company to grow its presence in the market of LMS software built off Moodle, launched in 2002 as a grassroots, open-source and more affordable option to Blackboard. LTG will pay $31.7
Edsurge
APRIL 1, 2020
For example, despite increased activity on the platform—concurrent users on the Canvas LMS were up 60 percent from typical use patterns and video submissions are up tenfold from typical use patterns pre-Covid-19—the costs of moving more data and training more educators will keep the company from a short-term windfall, Benson 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. Michael Feldstein’s education career spans decades, including stops at SUNY, Oracle, Cengage and e-Literate, where he is now chief accountability officer. Already, educators and students are asking good, hard questions.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
Classroom videos, student work samples and lesson plans are among the materials—which are accessible via the badge—serve as evidence. So far eight states have approved Digital Promise’s micro-credentials—meaning that they can count towards Continuing Professional Education units. Micro-credentials are hardly a new idea in education.
Edsurge
MAY 23, 2017
Over 500 education technologists from companies and districts gathered last week in Denver for the IMS Learning Impact meeting , hosted by the IMS Global Consortium. This annual event aims to accelerate the development and adoption of data standards that allow technologies used in schools to “talk” to one another.
techlearning
OCTOBER 25, 2018
This is no small feat, considering that she and now-NJ Commissioner of Education Lamont Repollet stepped into a struggling district with 75% of students reading below grade level (half of those being three-to-six grades below). They use the Blackboard platform to communicate with professors and engage fellow students in their courses.
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.
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