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What next with the LMS? A conversation with Phill Hill, continued

Bryan Alexander

They appear as follows, with only a trace of editing: Did you say Blackboard is 2nd in North America ? What drove such wide adoption in Europe and other regions for Moodle over the years? Do you think BlackBoard will keep on eye out to purchase more smaller LMS’s? Is the US military still a primary customer for Blackboard?

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Can Entrepreneurs Balance Educational and Financial Returns?

Edsurge

Its K-8 adaptive learning and diagnostic product i-Ready is used by over 4 million students, and a 2016 study found that it was an exceptionally accurate predictor of student performance on Common Core Assessments in New York State. Blackboard Inc.,

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What next with the LMS? A conversation with Phill Hill, continued

Bryan Alexander

They appear as follows, with only a trace of editing: Did you say Blackboard is 2nd in North America ? What drove such wide adoption in Europe and other regions for Moodle over the years? Do you think BlackBoard will keep on eye out to purchase more smaller LMS’s? Is the US military still a primary customer for Blackboard?

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Indeed, while there are handful who work arduously to undermine its privileged position in education technology – god bless them – to many more , it is simply impossible to imagine a future of teaching and learning without the LMS. The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I

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WHAT’S NEW

techlearning

BLACKBOARD AND READSPEAKER ( www.blackboard.com ) & ( www.readspeaker.com ) Blackboard and ReadSpeaker are furthering their partnership to help instructors worldwide improve course content accessibility. VITALSOURCE & BLACKBOARD ( get.vitalsource.com ) & ( www.blackboard.com ) Blackboard Inc.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Blackboard ’s Defense of its Finances is not Persuasive,” writes Michael Feldstein. Also from Feldstein : “ Moodle and Blackboard Cut Ties.” DreamBox Learning has raised $130 million from The Rise Fund. The adaptive learning company has raised $175.6 million total.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

It’s 2017, and ed-tech is so “disruptive” that we’re still debating the LMS , a technology that is at least 30 years old (and that’s just if you date it to the founding of Blackboard. ” Via Bryan Alexander : “ Moodle and the next LMS: reflections and more questions.”