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California Launches the Nation's Largest Community College Course Exchange

Edsurge

Course offerings fell 21 percent between 2007 and 2012. We’ve been knitting together this suite of wraparound services for students, because there’s a lot more that goes into helping students be successful than getting them on a common LMS,” says Jory Hadsell, executive director of California Community Colleges’ Online Education Initiative.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

It’s not even an LMS, quite frankly – something Edmodo tried to use as a selling point for a little while. The LMS has long positioned itself as an “operating system,” of sorts for higher education. The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I If so, what are they?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this decade — from ITT to coding bootcamps, from Trump University to the Draper University of Heroes — we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works now. Or rather, their interest wasn’t in the features of the new LMS.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

According to the latest jobs report , unemployment in the US is at 4.6%, the lowest since 2007. ” MOOC startups like Udacity and Coursera have also rebranded to target this particular post-secondary technical training market. See: the LMS, the MOOC.