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Blackboard Co-Founder: ‘4 Secrets to Building a Tech Company for Higher Ed’

Edsurge

As origin stories go, the founding of Blackboard twenty years ago lacked that single light bulb moment that tech companies like to tell. Colleges were spending millions networking classrooms and residence halls, and I wondered about the absence of technology in the “front office” for teaching and learning. The idea was simple.

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EdSurge Recommendations for What to Read, Watch and Listen to Over the Holiday Break

Edsurge

The novel tells the coming-of-age story of three friends who start a video-game design company. Like “Ready Player One,” it’s packed with references to pop culture from the early days of computers and digital culture that made me nostalgic for a simpler, more optimistic time of tech. So Babb’s book wasn’t published until 2004.

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Rave Mobile Safety Launches Rave Collaborate for Tactical Incident Collaboration

eSchool News

In addition to task management, reminders and activity tracking, Rave Collaborate is integrated into Rave Alert , a proven, industry-leading mass notification system, as well as other communication and IoT technologies, to provide a central platform to manage your organization’s preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation needs.

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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

EdNews Daily

Referred to often as operant conditioning, instrumental learning, stimulus-response, or classical conditioning it harkens back to Pavlov’s salivating dog, Thorndike’s hungry cat escaping a puzzle box, and Skinner’s pigeons that could ‘read’ or ‘drop’ bombs. References. What happened to the brain with limitless potential? O’ Mahony, E.

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Preventing the Math Summer Slide

Digital Promise

An early stage education technology company, Cignition, is attempting to break that trend through a summer program that keeps students engaged in mathematics through their online virtual world Fog Stone Isle. References. [1] Research Support for the Summer Math Slide. To learn more visit: cignition.com/summer. 1] White, W.

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

We explored campus technology and faculty attitudes towards digital materials. Casey noted some long-term persistent trends, such as campus IT seeing technology as an underutilized aid for instruction, and not feeling satisfied about institutional promotion of technology for faculty. Here is the full recording and my notes.

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EdSurge Article Recommends Edtech Efficacy Portfolios - Here's Ours

MIND Research Institute

The article goes on to provide guidance about where an edtech company might focus their efficacy measurement efforts based on the maturity of their product and organization. Fuster, 2004; Schneider & Chein, 2003), schemas and heuristics (e.g., Dietrich, 2004), to name a few. References: Dietrich, A. Fuster, J.

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