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4 Items on Instructure’s To-Do List After the Sale of the Canvas LMS Provider

Edsurge

In response to academics’ concerns about the use of student data once Instructure went private, the company formed an advisory committee on student data privacy made partially of educators.

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16 Great NonProfits Working to Support EdTech in Schools

Tom Murray

Digital Promise is a nonprofit authorized by Congress in 2008 as the National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies through Section 802 of the Higher Education Opportunity Act. Award winning principal, and now Senior Fellow Eric Sheninger , helps to lead much of the digital work.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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