Fractus Learning

JANUARY 4, 2017

As teacher becomes facilitator, moving farther away from the spotlight, and as the student focus shifts from the blackboard, there is a fear for some that the teacher is facilitating himself out of a job. The second problem I encounter in this vein manifests itself in the form of a question, “what is left for the teacher?”

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Blackboard How To Classroom Course 41

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

Get to know SnapThought – one of our assessment tools – and the new game Sortify, which adds another dimension to playful assessment. Special thanks for this go to our sponsor, Blackboard Collaborate, for providing the service that allows us to do this! Join here ! Details to join the webinar at [link].

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Conference Education Learning Common Core 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L. The company has raised some $77.5 I mean, one of its founders celebrated.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Developed by Blackboard, Desire2Learn, itslearning, Takai, Canvas, and a host of others, these solutions focus on helping educators organize and orchestrate learning tools, educational approaches, and whole courses. “It Needless to say it caught on with universities—and eventually school districts.

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LMS Khan Academy Blackboard Moodle 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

MP3 and MP4 versions will be available as well as the full Blackboard Collaborate recordings, although they take some days to process. Recordings : all conference sessions are recorded and are available almost immediately after being given. Be sure to come sign up on the conference website to be notified of recording availability.

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STEM Maker Movement MOOC Common Core 47

Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 9, 2016

We manually rebuilt each course half a dozen times or more, in Blackboard, Sakai, Canvas, and other systems. The same is true of the Open Assessments tool which we use a lot and are active contributors to.). From the very beginning, we have felt strongly that learners should work with OER directly inside their LMS.

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OER LMS Learning Sakai 60

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2017

For what it’s worth, investment analyst firm CB Insights predicts that funding this year will not exceed that 2015 level , but one of the reasons I like to track the data myself is that everyone’s numbers and everyone’s assessment of the industry seem to be different, depending in part on “what counts” as ed-tech.

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Coursera Knewton Company Udemy 57

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Testing, Testing… “Big changes ahead for how California assesses school performance,” KPCC reports. Will it also expand its “Concierge” services , in which the company takes a cut of contracts it facilitates between schools and ed-tech companies, into post-secondary markets? This is a great headline.

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Khan Academy Education LMS Company 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And I’m sorry, but another aside: if you get your history of education from a guy who calls Thomas Jefferson’s slaves “employees” then you might have some real problems discerning the kinds of sources – primary or secondary – that you should take seriously.). Why blackboards? When blackboards?

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Blackboard Khan Academy System Technology 111

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

As a set of policies, accountability was instantiated in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2002, and reinforced by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015. You know what’s cooler than a million hacked Yahoo accounts ?)

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Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

NovoEd co-founder Amin Saberi was replaced by Ed Miller, a former Blackboard exec. Blackboard replaced its CEO. In part, their struggles are a result of controversies surrounding the Common Core State Standards, which were supposed to streamline and procurement the development of curriculum and assessment.

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The “nation’s report card” is the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP. For what it’s worth, according to the latest data from the NCES , the number of post-secondary institutions in the US has increased since 2011. Inside Higher Ed examines the challenges facing LMS provider Blackboard.

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise. People were relieved that there was a new alternative to Blackboard. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145