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New Ownership for an LMS Giant: Private Equity Firm to Buy Instructure for $2 Billion

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when it comes to the LMS software that serves as the virtual classroom, online gradebook and other functions used in just about every college course these days. The company says its tools are used by more than 30 million people across the education and corporate learning markets. Canvas has the largest market share in the U.S.

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Blackboard to Sell Open LMS Product for $31.7 Million

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-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. As part of the deal, LTG will resell Blackboard products integrated with Open LMS.

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Canvas LMS Maker, Instructure, Appoints New CEO Steve Daly

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To continue that effort, the company announced its new CEO, Steve Daly, will start his first day of work on July 1. Daly will succeed former CEO Dan Goldsmith, who steered what was a publicly-traded company through a protracted and contested sales process to Thoma Bravo—a drama that began in December 2019. higher education market.

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

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For example, despite increased activity on the platform—concurrent users on the Canvas LMS were up 60 percent from typical use patterns and video submissions are up tenfold from typical use patterns pre-Covid-19—the costs of moving more data and training more educators will keep the company from a short-term windfall, Benson says.

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PowerSchool to Acquire Schoology, Pairing Major K-12 LMS and SIS Providers

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Since 2015, PowerSchool has acquired eight companies. Through these deals, the company has expanded its product suite beyond its original K-12 student information system offering to assessment, enrollment, special education and talent management services. K-12 LMS market share in U.S. and Canada. and Canada. and Canada.

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Remarkable Teaching: Student Created Virtual Reality Projects

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Sean Wybrant, 2017 Colorado Teacher of the Year, has students building virtual reality and augmented reality experiences. ” PowerSchool is my only recommended SIS and LMS. Reprinted from Colorado Teacher of the Year 2017 Bio. They are programming in advanced ways with a full motion capture lab. Listen to the Show.

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Is Curriculum-Mapping Becoming a Priority for Online College Programs?

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Back in 2017, a startup named Coursetune began selling software tailored to a very particular niche: designing curriculum. How that company has grown and changed says a lot about the growth of online programs in higher education. The price of the sale was not disclosed.)

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