2020 Company Digital Learning LMS 
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
Where Instructure planned to go with Bridge, its learning management system for corporate and enterprise customers, has been an open question for over a year, when the company was still publicly traded. Goldsmith is no longer CEO, and the Salt Lake City-based company is now privately owned by private equity firm Thoma Bravo.
Edsurge
APRIL 1, 2020
Even without a pandemic, Instructure faced a transformative 2020. The learning management system provider—best known for its Canvas product popular among colleges—is officially under private equity ownership. So what else is next for the Salt Lake City-based edtech company? The company is also on the search for a new CFO.
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Edsurge
JANUARY 23, 2020
Learning management system provider Instructure has laid off as many as 100 full-time employees as the publicly traded company nears a key shareholder vote on a proposed sale to a private equity firm. The restructuring primarily affected employees who worked on Instructure’s Bridge product, an LMS tailored to corporate learning.
Edsurge
AUGUST 11, 2016
A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 31, 2019
Instructure’s third quarter performance left some investors beaming, but the company’s long term strategy appears more muddy. For one, the CEO of the learning management system provider didn’t shirk away from a possible sale of its corporate LMS, Bridge, which launched in 2015. The company reported $68.3 million and $258.1
21st Century Educational Technology and Learning
AUGUST 23, 2020
It is back to school time 2020 for many of us in the United States and beyond. Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 20, 2019
A third shareholder in Instructure , the publicly traded provider of the Canvas learning management system used by colleges and K-12 schools, has come out against a proposed $2 billion sale of the company to a private equity firm. Blackboard itself went from a publicly traded company to private equity owned in 2011.
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