Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

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

Blackboard 82

Blackboard LMS Moodle Student Data Privacy 82

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

The learning management system provider—best known for its Canvas product popular among colleges—is officially under private equity ownership. Previous expansion plans had been put on hold by a disappointing corporate learning product, activist investor interest and an acquisition that became messy at times.

LMS 95

LMS Blackboard Company Moodle 95

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition). What then of the students? Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Uber’s C.E.O. This past two weeks also saw seven (7!)

EdTech 170

EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition). What then of the students? Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Uber’s C.E.O. This past two weeks also saw seven (7!)

EdTech 150

EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” Good for you. But that’s not my job.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” ” Via EdSource : “New program aims to create more uniform standards among linked learning academies.” Via Techcrunch : “ Blackboard cofounder Michael Chasen takes CEO reins at PrecisionHawk.”

Education 40

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40