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Mentoring for Digital Leadership in California Adult Educators

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I have been extremely fortunate to be a part of OTAN’s Digital Leadership Academy (DLAC ), first as a participant in 2016, and now as a coach to mentor other adult educators in meeting their program goals. We all learn about each other’s programs, teaching situations, and hardware/software in use. Plus, we have a lot of fun too!

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Blackboard Co-Founder Urges ‘Disarmament’ Between Edtech Companies and Academics

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He has seen the situation from both sides, having spent years as a leader of Blackboard (he co-founded it 20 years ago), then heading back to school to get a PhD and become a professor, all before returning to business to become CEO of Parchment. Let’s rewind 20 years, to when you co-founded Blackboard. No, and this may surprise you.

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Lightspeed Systems® Announces Craig Chanoff as Chief Revenue Officer 

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In his role, Chanoff will lead all functions of the revenue team, including Client Success, Sales, Field Marketing, and Revenue Operations, and as a member of the Executive Leadership Team, will report directly to Brian Thomas , Chief Executive Officer at Lightspeed Systems. “We

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The Edtech Industry Has An Oversaturation Problem

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Some of those big names include Google Classroom in K-12, Blackboard and Canvas learning management systems in higher ed, and across education the once-obscure video software named Zoom became ubiquitous during the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, many edtech companies have engineers who don’t have teaching experience or knowledge about pedagogy.

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Speak Up 2021 Congressional Briefing: Lessons Learned from a Year of Virtual School

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Redefining effective learning: now that schools were forced to start offering online options, educators and students understand more about learning preferences, how to engage students, and what methods actually contribute to student success. About the Presenters. Christina Fleming is the Chief Marketing Officer at Blackboard.

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Online Learning During COVID-19

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When Project Tomorrow surveyed students in 2015 about what they envision schools will look like in 2020, one student described school as being the place where there would be more educational videos, online class discussions, online games, and texting between teachers and students. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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4 Items on Instructure’s To-Do List After the Sale of the Canvas LMS Provider

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Find A New CEO and CFO Perhaps the first order of business for Instructure is to find permanent leadership. Josh Coates, for example, served as Instructure CEO for about eight years and is its current executive chairman. Here is what we expect from Instructure in the near future. They are builders,” Urdan says.

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