Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 1, 2020

If a medical procedure has a 82% success rate, I can take comfort in the fact that there are "only" 18 out of 100 case studies when the procedure fails. A few years ago in Shelby, our teachers asked for something better -- not only in an online gradebook, but in a learning management system (LMS) that had SBG as its centerpiece.

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LMS System Course Assessment 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

” The Gates Foundation is perhaps the best known organization for furthering political advocacy through its funding mechanisms. “Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google Are Fighting a War for the Classroom,” Edutechnica wrote in June , with a look at how many colleges have adopted their competing “pseudo-LMSes.”

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

That doesn’t seem like much money if you’re selling access to your students as a “case study” for a tech company. PowerSchool has acquired the LMS Haiku Learning for an undisclosed sum. Via The New York Times on Tim Berners Lee ’s latest: “The Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It.”

Education 48

Education MOOC Company Report 48