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BETT 2019 in review: The future of education is now!

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The conference floor was packed full with VR headsets, interactive products, incredible software, robots and anything you could imagine belonging in a classroom. The NEO Team at BETT 2019. In the end I’ll leave you with this video of our NEO Team at the BETT Show 2019! We had high expectations and even higher enthusiasm.

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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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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. That also means separating the underlying software code of Bridge from that of the Canvas LMS. Canvas has the largest market share in the U.S.

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Canvas LMS Maker, Instructure, Appoints New CEO Steve Daly

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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. Daly was formerly CEO of LANDESK, an IT and security software firm that was acquired by Thoma Bravo in 2010.

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Actionable advice for educators to move to online learning

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Now, if you were one of the fortunate educators whose institution had an existing modern learning management system ( LMS ), then you had an advantage because there was at least partial familiarity with distance teaching technologies and tactics. The right LMS will have an intuitive design, be user friendly, and have powerful features.

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How educators can make use of edtech into the classroom

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A version of this post was originally published on August 6, 2019 in Education HQ Australia. It can also substitute the class projector, offering whole-group access to personalised learning materials created by the teacher specifically for a lesson, other educational websites or even to the assessment software. The school LMS.

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The Edtech Company Formerly Known as AltSchool Sold Its Tech. So What’s Left?

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First, a recap: In 2019, AltSchool, a San Francisco-based startup that simultaneously developed a network of “microschools” in tandem with educational software, sold the schools to Higher Ground Education , an operator of Montessori schools, services and learning centers.

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