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Blackboard to Sell Open LMS Product for $31.7 Million

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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

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SchooLinks Raises $7M to Take on a Giant in K-12 College and Career Planning

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Such services were a dime a dozen, she quickly learned. And similar to how Instructure challenged and eventually overtook Blackboard as the dominant player in the learning management system market, “the same market opportunity and dynamics are true here,” Kapoor adds. Three years later, she set her sights on something bigger.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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The prior year, my former chief Bill Gates headlined ASU GSV and received a standing ovation for championing technology’s power to transform teaching and learning. When I started my first edtech business in 1998, our competitor Blackboard had less than 10 employees and customers. NASDAQ: UDMY), and Nerdy, Inc. NYSE: NRDY).

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When His Roster Outgrew His Classroom, This Prof Mastered Modular Online Curriculum

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Right before the start of the Fall semester in 2002, Robertson learned that the 400-seat movie theater that held his Principles of Marketing class at San Francisco State University would no longer be available. Different students have different approaches to learning, he says. His choice: modular learning.

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Thursday - Paulo Blikstein from Stanford on Cutting-Edge Technologies for Inner-City Learning

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He is the director of Stanford''s Transformative Learning Technologies Lab and director of Stanford Makers'' Club and FabLab@School project. Paulo’s research focus on the confluence of expressive technologies for learning and critical pedagogy. degree from the MIT Media Lab (2002), where he was also a visiting scholar (2003).

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Tuesday - Pat Farenga on John Holt and Homeschooling

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Date : Tuesday, September 11th, 2012 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Log in at [link].

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Thursday Interview - Finkelstein on Virtual PD, Non-Traditional Learning Environments, and Badges

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me Tuesday, June 12th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Jonathan Finkelstein, founder and executive producer of LearningTimes , the "global leader in creating innovative, interactive online learning solutions." Recordings : The full Blackboard Collaborate recording is at https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?