Bryan Alexander

JUNE 30, 2017

You can check out our Twitter discussion, Storified , or listen to an audio recording of the whole session , thanks to Roxanne Riskin: Yet maybe the conversation won’t stop there, at 3:05 pm EDT on June 29th. They appear as follows, with only a trace of editing: Did you say Blackboard is 2nd in North America ? link] #FTTE.

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 30, 2017

You can check out our Twitter discussion, Storified , or listen to an audio recording of the whole session , thanks to Roxanne Riskin: Yet maybe the conversation won’t stop there, at 3:05 pm EDT on June 29th. They appear as follows, with only a trace of editing: Did you say Blackboard is 2nd in North America ? link] #FTTE.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

At a conference where educators and entrepreneurs seemed enraptured by the possibility of personalized and adaptive learning technology, Mitra offered this warning: “The problem we have in our system is that we think we can tell the learner where to go.” A guiding principle behind the company’s approach to data is “prose, not graphs.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. They’re amazing.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

” Via Edsurge : “With a Year of Crisis Text Line Data, California Community Colleges Launch Mental Health Program.” “ Blackboard ’s Defense of its Finances is not Persuasive,” writes Michael Feldstein. Also from Feldstein : “ Moodle and Blackboard Cut Ties.” Sticks With Him.”

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Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

It was one of two social media messages – the other a Twitter photo of Tunsil smoking marijuana through a gas mark – that were posted during the NFL draft. “ Blackboard Partners with Fishtree for Personalized Learning,” says Campus Technology. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. It's religion.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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