Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Broadband penetration in K-12 schools reached over 98 percent , while low-cost computing devices like Chromebooks have proliferated in classrooms. Edtech providers are as vulnerable as their peers in other industries. Schools spent a decade buying technology. Now they want it to work.

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Trends EdTech Education Company 166

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Branded eventually as Blackboard, it was the market leader in the U.S. Virtual learning, too, must be as ubiquitous as conventional higher education, especially for students too far from college campuses to attend face to face, and now for many in our post-industrial economy, forced to work to earn college degrees.

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Online Learning Learning Mobility Blackboard 118

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The students learn how to use industry-approved software programs and are often granted paid internships at local design firms and research labs, and Greeley’s planning and development departments. They also take field trips to area manufacturing firms. It’s perhaps not surprising. Many now have a laptop for every student.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

NovoEd co-founder Amin Saberi was replaced by Ed Miller, a former Blackboard exec. Blackboard replaced its CEO. For the last five or six years, education technology has been largely talked about in terms of “startups,” something that helps position the industry as an outsider and an underdog.

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” Via Multichannel News : “Trayvon Martin Attorney Parks Targets AT&T Over Alleged Broadband Redlining.” Edsurge’s Jeff Young and Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill both asked industry analyst Trace Urdan for his take. Inside Higher Ed examines the challenges facing LMS provider Blackboard.

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

“ FCC Delays Are Keeping Broadband From Rural School Kids,” says Wired. ” Via EdScoop : “Edtech and industry leaders say they’re stuck if they can’t scale.” ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “Comparing the First Ten Years of Blackboard and Instructure in LMS Market.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

A teacher in front of a blackboard. Everything about our lives has moved beyond the industrial era. ” Via CItyLab : “The Problem With America’s New National Broadband Map.” " Highlights from some of the featured speakers: Does this look familiar? Students lined up in rows. Wait for the bell.

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Education Kaplan Coursera MOOC 47