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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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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best.

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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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Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. A small but mighty movement was building – and it needed time to grow.

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A Conversation with Bryan Alexander on Technology and the Liberal Arts

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Bryan Alexander, senior fellow at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education ( NITLE ). Date : Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8 pm Eastern ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at [link]. Alexander earned his Ph.D.

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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. He completed his PhD. in Metallurgical Engineering and a MEng.

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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. The only way to overcome the seating limitation was to turn to technology. His choice: modular learning.

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